ATLANTA, USA: The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has estimated COVID subvariant JN.1 to account for about 85.7% of cases in the United States, as of January 19.
The agency said JN.1 remains the most widely circulating variant of SARS-CoV-2 in the USA and globally.
The CDC further said that there is no evidence at present that JN.1 causes more severe disease than other variants and added that currently available vaccines are expected to increase protection against the variant.
JN.1, which traces its lineage back to BA.2.86, was classified a “variant of interest” by the World Health Organization (WHO) in December last year.
The predicted range of 83% to 88% marks an increase from the estimated prevalence of 55% to 68% of cases in the US, as per the agency’s projections from January 5.
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