No reported cases of new COVID-19 variant JN.1 in Egypt: Official

Ahram Online
Dec 25, 2023

No reported cases of new COVID-19 variant JN.1 in Egypt: Official


No cases of the Omicron coronavirus subvariant, known as JN.1, have been reported in Egypt so far, Mohamed Awad Tag El-Din, presidential adviser for health affairs, said in a TV comment on Sunday evening. However, Tag El-Din stressed that it is still possible for the variant, which was first detected in the US and currently prevails in other nations, to arrive in Egypt. Coronavirus has not disappeared yet; its variants continue to emerge from time to time, he underscored.

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