Presently ahead of the christmas and New Year season, india is reporting a surge in Covid-19 cases, with 614 fresh infections in the last 24 hours. The latest Covid-19 numbers are the highest in a span of a 24-hour period in india since May 21 this year amid the spike in infections across the united states and china due to subvariant JN.1. Meanwhile as per the data of the Union health Ministry, updated on wednesday, active cases have increased to 2,311. The data which was updated at 8 am also showed that three Covid deaths have been reported in the last 24 hours from Kerala.

As per report, India’s active cases count for coronavirus doubled in the last nine days, jumping from 938, as recorded on december 11 to 1,970 on Tuesday. Meanwhile niti aayog member (Health) Dr v K Paul said on wednesday that as many as 21 cases of COVID-19 sub-variant JN.1 have been detected across the country till now. Earlier, data released by INSACOG, a central government forum set up to study genome sequencing and virus variation of circulating strains of COVID-19 in india, said that as many as 20 cases of COVID-19 sub-variant JN.1 have been found across the country. Among them, 18 were traced in goa and one each was found in kerala and Maharashtra. At present, there are 2041 active cases in kerala, 79 in Karnataka, 77 in tamil Nadu, 35 in Maharashtra, 23 in goa, 20 in Puducherry, 12 in Gujarat, 9 in Telangana, 5 in Punjab, 4 in Delhi, 2 in Jharkhand, 2 in Madhya Pradesh, 1 in Uttar Pradesh, and 1 in Jammu and Kashmir.

Moreover the World health Organization (WHO) on tuesday classified the JN.1 strain of coronavirus as a “variant of interest”. The global health body however also noted that the variant did not pose much threat to public health. As per report, WHO said, “Based on the available evidence, the additional global public health risk posed by JN.1 is currently evaluated as low.”