India has stepped up its surveillance measures amid a rise in reported cases of a new coronavirus subvariant, according to officials.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The country saw a total of 614 fresh infections, the biggest rise in the last seven months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The current spike has been attributed to Covid subvariant JN.1, labelled a \u201cvariant of interest\u201d by the World Health Organisation on Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The active cases in the country have risen to 2,311, while three deaths have been reported in Kerala, according to Indian news reports, citing data from the federal health ministry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
India has stepped up its surveillance measures amid a rise in reported cases of a new coronavirus subvariant, according to officials. The country saw a total of 614 fresh infections, the biggest rise in the last seven months. The current spike has been attributed to Covid subvariant JN.1, labelled a \u201cvariant of interest\u201d by the World Health Organisation on Tuesday. The active cases …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":99497,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_108372464460192_245495985553329":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[2929],"tags":[1680],"class_list":["post-99496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-india","tag-covid-19"],"yoast_head":"\n