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India's active COVID-19 cases have crossed the 4,000 mark, with Kerala remaining the most affected state followed by Maharashtra, Gujarat, and Delhi, according to the Union Health Ministry data released on Tuesday.

According to official data, 65 fresh covid cases have been reported in the past 24 hours.

Karnataka's Health and Family Welfare Department has said in an official statement that the number of active Covid-19 cases crossed the 300-mark in the state.

India's active COVID-19 cases have climbed to 3,961 as per the Health Ministry's Covid-19 dashboard. According to official data, 203 new cases were added to the active case count since Sunday.

Symptoms of NB.1.8.1 are generally mild to moderate. However, elderly and immune-compromised people remain at higher risk for severe disease.

India's active COVID-19 cases stand at 3,961 as of 8 AM on Monday, June 2, according to Ministry of Health and Family Welfare. The cumulative COVID-19 deaths in the country since January this year have increased to 32.

Four more people were diagnosed with coronavirus infection in Gurugram on Sunday, a health department official said.

India reported 685 new COVID-19 cases between Friday and Saturday, along with four deaths, the official data showed.

In view of the Covid-19 situation in the state and the reopening of schools, Karnataka government, in a circular, has asked parents not to send their children to school, if they have fever, cough, cold and other symptoms.

According to the data by Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Kerala has recorded 1,147 cases, Maharashtra 424, Delhi 294, and Gujarat 223.

As many as 84 new COVID-19 cases were reported in Maharashtra on Friday, taking the tally of cases registered since the start of the year to 681, the state public health department said.

Police have registered an FIR against a doctor of a government hospital in Maharashtra for allegedly instructing a colleague to "kill" a Covid patient during the 2021 pandemic.

Long Covid is a collection of symptoms that you might experience after your initial Covid symptoms.

Health experts in the US suggest that NB.1.8.1 may not cause severe illness, however, it is spreading faster than other variants.

NB.1.8.1 is a descendant of the Omicron family. Like other Omicron sub-variants, NB.1.8.1 appears to be highly transmissible.

The US will no longer recommend Covid-19 vaccines for children and healthy pregnant women, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced Tuesday, calling it a "common sense" decision grounded in sound science.

The strain, identified as NB.1.8.1, was first reported in the US between late March and early April among international travellers

Rajasthan reported nine new Covid-19 cases, including a 16-day-old infant, in the past 24 hours, taking the total number of cases this year to 32.

COVID-19 vaccines are no longer recommended in the United States for children and pregnant women who are healthy, US Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Junior, who has been a staunch critic of vaccines in general, has announced.

As Karnataka recorded 80 COVID-19 cases, Chief Minister Siddaramaiah said on Tuesday that the elderly and people with co-morbidities must wear masks as a precautionary measure.

The JN.1 variant and its related descendants belong to the Omicron family.

Amid an uptick in Covid cases in some parts of the country, Director General of the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) Dr Rajiv Behl Monday said the severity of infections as of now is generally mild and there was no cause for worry.

Delhi Health Minister Pankaj Singh on Monday said Covid caused by the new variant has only shown symptoms of viral fever so far, and urged people not to panic.