{"id":496886,"date":"2023-12-23T13:06:59","date_gmt":"2023-12-23T07:36:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/?p=496886"},"modified":"2023-12-23T13:06:59","modified_gmt":"2023-12-23T07:36:59","slug":"covid-jn-1variant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/india-news\/covid-jn-1variant\/","title":{"rendered":"India records 752 new Covid cases in 24 hours, active cases reach 3420"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Union Health Ministry on Saturday said India saw a single-day rise of 752 Covid-19 infections, which is the highest since May 21, while the active cases reached 3420. The spike in fresh Covid cases came amid&nbsp; concerns over an increase in sub-variant JN.1 cases. Four new deaths were reported \u2013 two from Kerala and one each in Rajasthan and Karnataka in the past 24 hours, taking the death toll to 5,33,332.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The case fertility rate was recorded at 1.18 percent. India\u2019s Covid case tally stood at 4.5 crore. According to the Ministry data updated at 8 am today, 17 states saw an uptick in active cases of Covid-19. Of them, Kerala (266), Karnataka (70), Gujarat (12), Tamil Nadu (13) and Maharashtra (15) were some of the affected states.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">4 COVID-19 deaths, India saw 752 coronavirus cases in the last 24 hours, according to the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/CoronavirusUpdates?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#CoronavirusUpdates<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/COVID?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#COVID<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/JjuwmcZ11v\">pic.twitter.com\/JjuwmcZ11v<\/a><\/p>&mdash; VIKASH POLAI \ud83d\udea9\ud83d\uded5(ODISHA) (@VikashPolai) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/VikashPolai\/status\/1738452067201507377?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 23, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>As many as 325 people recovered from Covid-19 in the past 24 hours, taking the total number of recoveries to 4,44,71,212, the Health Ministry said. The national recovery rate is pegged at 98.81 per cent.The Health Ministry on Friday India recorded 640 fresh Covid-19 infections and one death and the active caseload increased to 2,997 from 2,669 the previous day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, the Bihar government has directed all districts and hospitals in the state to increase Covid-19 RT-PCR testing with random testing of arrivals at Patna, Gaya and Darbhanga airports. The central government has said the current rise in Covid-19 cases was not a cause for concern and urged people not to panic. However the Centre has advised people having comorbidities to wear face masks as precautionary measure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Health Minister Mansukh Mandavya on Wednesday reviewed the preparedness of health facilities across the country and stressed being alert against emerging strains of Covid. According to reports 22 cases of Covid sub-variant JN.1 have been reported all over India. Of them 19, has been traced in Goa and one each in Kerala and Maharashtra.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Four new deaths were reported \u2013 two from Kerala and one each in Rajasthan and Karnataka in the past 24 hours, taking the death toll to 5,33,332.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":496892,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"India records 752 new Covid cases in 24 hours, active cases reach 3420","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[111298,1497],"tags":[130205,130600],"yst_prominent_words":[],"ppma_author":[140543],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/d2r2ijn7njrktv.cloudfront.net\/apnlive\/uploads\/2023\/12\/23130331\/coronavirus-_1_.webp","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"authors":[{"term_id":140543,"user_id":4,"is_guest":0,"slug":"apnnewsdesk","display_name":"APN Live","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/478eacb893eda88aa6ed8d99b005bf58?s=96&r=g"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496886"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=496886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496886\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/496892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=496886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=496886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=496886"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=496886"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=496886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- html is corrupted -->