New COVID-19 Wave In India? 5 Essential Updates On The New Surge News24 –

By Correspondent On May 20, 2025

India has seen a slight uptick in COVID cases in recent days, and the union health ministry has refreshed its database on COVID case tally since May 12. The latest dashboard is showing 257 active COVID cases recorded in various states in the country, with most from Kerala, Tamil Nadu, and Maharashtra. The uptick seems to suggest a modicum of COVID-19 variant from Southeast Asia.

COVID-19 Variants

JN.1 is the COVID-19 strain that was identified in August 2023, designated as a ‘India has seen a slight uptick in COVID cases in recent days, and the union health ministry has refreshed its database on COVID case tally since May 12. The latest dashboard is showing 257 active COVID cases recorded in various states in the country, with most from Kerala, Tamil Nadu, and Maharashtra. The uptick seems to suggest a modicum of COVID-19 variant from Southeast Asia.

COVID Wave In Southeast Asia

A covid-19 resurgence is occurring in Southeast Asia, starting in Hong Kong, Singapore, Thailand and others across the region. According to the notifications in Covid-19 case cases in the area, most of the covid resurgence is being spread among Omicron variant JN.1, and JN.1 family of variants. Singapore observed over 14,000 + cases in early May of this year, with similar respikes in Hong Kong and Thailand.

Is India Before The Fall?

ET Health World is reporting a recent spike in Hong Kong, Singapore, China, and Thailand, with medical experts quoted in the report believing that it may happen in India too, because the antibodies to combat the infection are waning. There is a small uptick in India in places like Tamil Nadu, Kerala, and Maharashtra.

Celebs COVID Positives

Danger signs abound as some celebs are coming back positive for COVID-19. Along with this, social media is buzzing with rumors around Australian cricket star Travis Head being ruled out from IPL for the infection.

Even though Sunrisers Hyderabad head coach Daniel Vettori did attest that Head had COVID, HT can’t confirm the claim that he’s out of the whole remaining tournament period. Meanwhile 90s Bollywood star Shilpa Shirodkar confirmed in a statement on Monday that she had contracted the virus.

Is This Variant More Deadly?

Right now, nothing indicates that the new COVID-19 variant is more transmissible or deadly, but precautions need to be taken against it, and to evade the return of the destruction the disease caused in 2020-2021ariant of interest’ by the World Health Organisation (WHO) in December 2023. It is a descendent of the Omicron BA.2.86 variant. The JN.1 variant has approximately 30 mutations according to the WHO and two of these mutations to look out for are LF.7 and NB.1.8, which were commonly seen in the cases that have been reported in recent weeks.

COVID Wave In Southeast Asia

Is India Before The Fall?

ET HealthWorld is reporting a recent spike in Hong Kong, Singapore, China, and Thailand, with medical experts quoted in the report believing that it may happen in India too, because the antibodies to combat the infection are waning. There is a small uptick in India in places like Tamil Nadu, Kerala, and Maharashtra.