SHILLONG, Dec 27: Meghalaya continues to remain safe from the new variant of Covid-19.
Principal Secretary of the Health department, Sampath Kumar said on Wednesday that the department sequenced some samples on Tuesday and no new variant of Covid-19 was detected.
As of now, Meghalaya has not reported any new case of the new variant, he said.
There has been a surge in Covid-19 cases across the globe, especially of the virus’s JN.1 subvariant. In India, the first case of JN.1, which is a lineage of Omicron, was found in a 79-year-old woman in Kerala.
