Monday, 18 December 2023 The Union health secretary has urged states to monitor and report ILI and SARI cases and increase RT-PCR tests. Positive samples should be sent for genome sequencing to detect new variants. JN.1 variant, a descendant of the Pirola lineage, has significant mutations and has been reported in multiple countries. The health secretary states that current RT-PCR tests are effective for JN.1 detection. Symptoms of JN.1 infection are similar to other variants. The government reassures that JN.1 does not pose increased risk or severity and updated vaccines provide protection.
This Day in History: , The Civil War Begins.
April 12, 1861.
Union-held Fort Sumter in Charleston Bay, SC,
is attacked by Confederate shore batteries
under the command of General P.G.T. Beauregard.
After being battered
for 34 straight hours,
U.S. Major Robert Anderson
surrendered the fort.
U.S. President Abraham Lincoln
called for 75,000 volunteer
soldiers two days later.
He had been in office
for barely more than a month.
South Carolina, a slave state,
had issued an "Ordinance of Secession"
earlier in December, dissolving its ties with the Union.
The following four years of war between
the North and South would be the bloodiest
in American history, resulting in the deaths
of more than 620,000 Confederate and Union soldiers
Credit: Wibbitz Top Stories Duration: 00:58Published
Monday, 18 December 2023
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