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JN.1, the latest Covid-19 variant from the lineage of Omicron making a fresh surge around the globe, represents ‘very serious evolution’ of Covid virus, according to global experts.
New data show pronounced recent jumps in the rate at which coronavirus and flu tests are coming back positive, as well as the number of hospital-admitted patients testing positive for the viruses.
Covid: The WHO has "just called JN.1 a VOI (variant of interest), and that just doesn't cut it, with the growth advantage this variant has demonstrated. It is just extraordinary", Dr Eric Topol, founder and director of the Scripps Research Translational Institute in California,US, was quoted as saying to Fortune.
New data show pronounced recent jumps in the rate at which coronavirus and flu tests are coming back positive, as well as the number of hospital-admitted patients testing positive for the viruses.
JN.1 represents ’very serious evolution’ of Covid virus, say global experts JN.1, classified as a variant of interest (VOI) by the World Health Organization