<p> Dehradun: Uttarakhand has reported its first case of Covid's new JN.1 variant, officials said on Friday but added that there was no reason to worry as the patient has recovered.</p>.<p> The 72-year-old woman who was under treatment at the Doon Hospital here for some other ailment had tested positive for COVID-19 in an RT-PCR test earlier this month.</p>.<p> Her samples were sent for genome sequencing whose report has arrived, Health Secretary R Rajesh Kumar said. She returned home around 10 days back, he said.</p>.Covid-19 sub-variant JN.1 cases cross 1,000-mark.<p> "It is the state's first case of Covid's latest new variant. But there is no reason to worry as the patient has already recovered and gone home," the official said.</p>.<p> The woman had no travel history but she had come in contact with a relative from the US recently. </p>
<p> Dehradun: Uttarakhand has reported its first case of Covid's new JN.1 variant, officials said on Friday but added that there was no reason to worry as the patient has recovered.</p>.<p> The 72-year-old woman who was under treatment at the Doon Hospital here for some other ailment had tested positive for COVID-19 in an RT-PCR test earlier this month.</p>.<p> Her samples were sent for genome sequencing whose report has arrived, Health Secretary R Rajesh Kumar said. She returned home around 10 days back, he said.</p>.Covid-19 sub-variant JN.1 cases cross 1,000-mark.<p> "It is the state's first case of Covid's latest new variant. But there is no reason to worry as the patient has already recovered and gone home," the official said.</p>.<p> The woman had no travel history but she had come in contact with a relative from the US recently. </p>