WTOP anchors Shawn Anderson and Kyle Cooper spoke with CBS News medical contributor Dr. Celine Gounder on what to know about JN.1, the latest COVID-19 variant. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said health departments across the country are seeing an increase in respiratory illnesses, including the flu, RSV and a fast-growing new COVID-19 … Read more
The JN.1 subvariant has become the dominant Covid-19 variant in India, accounting for more than 60% of the coronavirus cases in the country, according to people with knowledge of the matter. “XBB, which was the dominant variant for a long period in the country, has been surpassed by JN.1, which has crossed the 500 mark,” … Read more
The Omicron coronavirus subvariant JN.1 now makes up about 44.2 per cent of COVID-19 cases in the United States, according to the US Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The variant, which was previously classified under its parent strain, BA.2.86, prompted concern among some scientists earlier this year due to its high number of … Read more
Riyadh: Saudi Arabia on Wednesday, December 20, announced the detection of JN.1, a sub-variant of COVID-19 in the Kingdom. Taking to X, the Kingdom’s Public Health Authority (Weqya) said that the speed of spread of the mutant locally reached 36 percent, indicating that this was not accompanied by any increase in intensive care admissions, and … Read more
