Six passengers who arrived at Jinnah International Airport, Karachi coming from abroad tested positive for the new Covid-19 variant “JN.1 Omicron”.
According to Sindh Health Department, the rapid antigen tests of six passengers conducted at Jinnah International Airport came back positive. The number of JN.1 variant cases in Karachi has now risen to 15 after the detection of fresh patients. Earlier, Sindh Health Department confirmed two cases of COVID-19 in passengers who had arrived at Karachi’s Jinnah Inter¬national Airport.
The health officials suspect the cases to be of the highly transmissible JN.1 variant, which is currently a cause of concern across the world.
