Maharashtra reported 86 cases of COVID-19 and 154 people were discharged on Saturday after recovering from the disease, the state health department said.
No new patient infected with the JN.1 variant was detected on Saturday. The recovery rate in the state stands at 98.17 percent while the fatality rate stands at 1.81 percent. A total of 12,917 tests were conducted in the state on Saturday.
Till Saturday, 250 patients had been infected with the JN.1 variant in the state. Since January 1, the state has recorded 143 COVID-19 deaths.
The press release stated that 71.33 percent of these deaths occurred in persons over 60 years of age, 85 percent of the deceased had comorbidities and 15 percent had no comorbidities at all.
The World Health Organization (WHO) recently classified JN.1 as a variant of interest, separate from the parent lineage BA.2.86. However, the global health organization emphasized that the overall risk of JN.1 remains low based on current evidence.
Both the central and state governments are keeping a close eye on the new Omicron sub-variant JN.1. Several countries, including China, Indonesia, the Philippines, Malaysia and Singapore, have reported a rise in new coronavirus cases. The JN.1 strain, first detected in September in the United States, is a descendant of BA.2.86, a highly mutated variant of the Omicron strain of COVID-19.
The COVID-19 subvariant JN.1 has spread to 16 states, with a total of 971 cases of the infection reported as of January 11, official sources said.
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First print: January 13, 2024 | 11:39 PM IST