With active Covid cases in Gurugram Gurgaon rising on Wednesday, District Magistrate Nishant Kumar Yadav has ordered hospitals to set up isolation wards, a dedicated section within each ICU, and a separate OPD for patients having Covid symptoms.
After the national capital reported its first case of JN.1 variant infection, Delhi Health Minister Saurabh Bharadwaj said that there is no need to panic and that it only causes mild sickness.
According to the Public Health Department of Maharashtra, 80,23,456 COVID-19 patients have been discharged after full recovery, of which 14 were discharged on Wednesday.
A cabinet sub-committee meeting to address the COVID-19 precautionary measures was chaired by Karnataka Health Minister Dinesh Gundurao in Bengaluru on Tuesday.
Amid the upswing in COVID-19 cases in India , speaking to ANI, Dr. Shekhar C Mande , former DG, CSIR and Distinguished Professor, Bioinformatics Centre, Savitribai Phule Pune University, Pune, said surveillance should be done not only for COVID-19 cases but also for other diseases.
Maharashtra on Monday recorded 28 new cases of COVID-19 and atleast 10 cases of the JN.1 variant have been reported in the state to date, said the health department.
The sources said of the total cases of the JN.1 variant, 34 are from Goa, nine from Maharashtra, eight from Karnataka, six from Kerala, four from Tamil Nadu and two from Telangana
Amid the JN.1 scare, Maharashtra on Sunday reported 50 new COVID-19 cases, of which nine cases of the JN.1 variant were reported, marking a total of 10 new variants in the state.
Rajasthan has reported 11 fresh Covid-19 cases in the last 24 hours. The state has witnessed seven cases in Jaipur and one each in the Alwar, Kota, Dausa and Sawai Madhopur districts, according to an official statement issued by the state health department.
A 62-year-old woman was isolated at Mahama Gandhi Memorial Hospital in Telangana after incidentally developing COVID-19 symptoms, JN.1 variant to be confirmed after genome sequencing, said Superintendent, MGM Hospital V Chandrashekar on Saturday.
After a surge in the cases of the new COVID subvariant JN.1, doctors from the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) have advised people to not panic but rather remain alert and vigilant.