COVID cases double in 9 days in India; 19 more sequences of JN.1 found

Insacog, the central government forum of labs, has found 19 sequences of BA.2.86 (nicknamed Pirola) descendant JN.1 - one from Maharashtra and 18 from Goa - after the subvariant was first detected in Kerala a few days ago, while India's active COVID case count more than doubled in the past nine days from 938 on December 11 to 1,970 on Tuesday.

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