NEW DELHI: The Centre on Saturday said the
Union health ministry
is in touch with Kerala health department officials after a case of JN.1, a subvariant of Covid-19, was found in the state as part of the ongoing routine surveillance by INSACOG
The Union ministry noted an increasing trend of Covid-19 cases from Kerala "since the last few weeks", attributed to an increase in number of samples being referred for testing.
"A majority of these cases are clinically mild and recovering on their own at their homes without any treatment," the ministry stated.
Mock drills are also being held in all health facilities in the states as part of the regular exercise of Union health ministry to assess their public health and hospital preparedness measures, said the statement.
The Indian SARS-CoV-2 Genomics Consortium (INSACOG) is a network of genomic laboratories that has been monitoring Covid-19 in India from a genomic perspective; ICMR is a part of this consortium.
The JN.1 case was detected in a RT-PCR positive sample from Karakulam, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala on December 8. The sample tested RT-PCR positive on November 18. The patient, a woman, had mild symptoms of Influenza Like Illness (ILI) and has since recovered from Covid-19.
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