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Health Minister Saurabh Bharadwaj says, “We have increased number of tests” over first case of Omicron in Delhi

On the first case of JN.1, a Sub-Variant of Omicron in Delhi, Health Minister Saurabh Bharadwaj says “We have increased the number of tests. Yesterday we performed 636 tests in private and govt hospitals. 3 genome sequencing results were received yesterday, out of which two were old Omicron variants and one was JN.1. The new variant is mild and people are not getting severely ill because of this. The patient with the JN.1 variant has already been discharged from the hospital and she is healthy now. We can say that there are no patients of JN.1 variant in Delhi currently.”

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