{"id":22001,"date":"2024-01-03T15:19:18","date_gmt":"2024-01-03T10:19:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=22001"},"modified":"2024-01-03T15:19:18","modified_gmt":"2024-01-03T10:19:18","slug":"nih-has-rejected-the-spread-of-the-new-covid-19-variant-jn-1-in-pakistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/nih-has-rejected-the-spread-of-the-new-covid-19-variant-jn-1-in-pakistan\/","title":{"rendered":"NIH has rejected the spread of the new COVID-19 variant JN.1 in Pakistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: The National Institute of Health (NIH) has ruled out the spread of a new COVID-19 variant JN.1 in Pakistan.<\/p>\n<p>Clarifying BBC Urdu reports that JN.1 was &#8216;possibly&#8217; affecting people in the country, the NIH stated that people in Pakistan are becoming ill with a new type of influenza, which causes severe respiratory disease in adults, and has ruled out the possibility of a new COVID-19 variant JN.1 spreading in the country.<\/p>\n<p>Read More:\u00a0<em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/world\/nearly-50-people-are-killed-in-japans-earthquake-as-damaged-roads-impede-the-search-for-survivors.html\">Nearly 50 people are killed in Japan&amp;#8217;s earthquake, as damaged roads impede the search for survivors<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>According to the NIH, influenza-A H2 and H3 sub-variants were spreading across the country, affecting people who had reported respiratory problems.<\/p>\n<p>It also stated that COVID-19 is not causing illness in Pakistan at the moment, as the COVID-19 positivity rate remained below 1% last week.<\/p>\n<p>According to government statistics, only 16 people were found to be positive for the coronavirus after 3606 tests.<\/p>\n<p>Read More:\u00a0<em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/imran-khan-and-fawad-chaudhry-have-been-charged-with-contempt-of-court-by-ecp.html\">Imran Khan and Fawad Chaudhry have been charged with contempt of court by ECP<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>While there has been no confirmed case of JN.1, Pakistan will vaccinate pilgrims traveling to Saudi Arabia later this year.<\/p>\n<p>However, in order to comply with international protocols, Pakistan plans to receive at least 500,000 doses of Pfizer&#8217;s new COVID-19 vaccine (2023-24 formula) in January 2024.<\/p>\n<p>According to the World Health Organization, over 850,000 cases of the new COVID-19 variant were reported globally between November 20 and December 17.<\/p>\n<p>Influenza, which attacks people with weakened immune systems quickly, can be treated with a mask, but no vaccine has been developed to prevent this illness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: The National Institute of Health (NIH) has ruled out the spread of a new COVID-19 variant JN.1 in Pakistan. Clarifying BBC Urdu reports that JN.1 was &#8216;possibly&#8217; affecting people in the country, the NIH stated that people in Pakistan are becoming ill with a new type of influenza, which causes severe respiratory disease in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":22002,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,9,21,2],"tags":[584,3255,10532],"class_list":["post-22001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health","category-latest-news","category-news","category-pakistan","tag-covid-19","tag-nih","tag-variant-jn-1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22001\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}