WHO mentioned that present vaccines proceed to guard towards JN.1 and different circulating variants of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19.
Days after a new Covid-19 variant was detected in a number of nations, the World Health Organization (WHO) has labeled the JN.1 strain as a ‘variant of curiosity’. However, it mentioned that the new variant didn’t pose a lot risk to public well being. JN.1 was beforehand labeled as a variant of curiosity as a component of its mum or dad lineage BA.2.86.
“Due to its rapidly increasing spread, WHO is classifying the variant JN.1 as a separate variant of interest (VOI) from the parent lineage BA.2.86. It was previously classified as VOI as part of BA.2.86 sublineages,” WHO tweeted on Tuesday.
The world well being physique additional mentioned that based mostly on the out there proof, the extra world public well being threat posed by JN.1 is presently evaluated as low. Despite this, with the onset of winter within the Northern Hemisphere, JN.1 could increase the burden of respiratory infections in lots of nations.
WHO mentioned that present vaccines proceed to guard towards extreme illness and demise from JN.1 and different circulating variants of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. Meanwhile, India’s first JN.1 case was detected in a pattern taken from a 79-year-old girl in Kerala with delicate signs on December 8. Earlier, a traveller from Tamil Nadu’s Tiruchirapalli district was discovered to be contaminated with the JN.1 variant in Singapore.
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Due to its quickly growing unfold, WHO is classifying the variant JN.1 as a separate variant of curiosity (VOI) from the mum or dad lineage BA.2.86. It was beforehand labeled as VOI as half of BA.2.86 sublineages.
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— World Health Organization (WHO) (@WHO) December 19, 2023
