The World Health Organization (WHO) classified the JN.1 variant of the coronavirus that causes Covid-19 as a “variant of concern” due to its “rapid spread”, although it noted that the risk to global public health is low.
According to the WHO, which issued a statement on the subject on Tuesday, the JN.1 variant of SARS-CoV-2 could “increase the burden of respiratory infections in many countries” in the Northern Hemisphere as the winter season approaches.
However, the WHO assures that the vaccines in circulation against Covid-19 (which prevent serious diseases and deaths) work with this variant, which comes from the BA.2.86 lineage (which comes from the Ómicron variant).
Covid-19 is a pandemic respiratory disease caused by SARS-CoV-2, a type of virus first discovered in China in 2019 that has adopted several variants and subvariants, some of which are more contagious than others.
Source: DN
