The health authorities in Sindh on Tuesday confirmed two suspected cases of new Covid-19 variant who landed at Karachi’s Jinnah International Airport, reported 24NewsHD TV channel.

The Sindh health department considered the cases to be of the highly transmissible JN.1 variant, which is currently a cause of concern across the globe.

The two passengers aged between 50 and 60 years arrived from Bangkok and Jeddah on Thursday and Friday, respectively.

The lab samples have been sent to Dow University of Health Sciences laboratory, they said.

Earlier, the National Command and Operation Center (NCOC) decided to conduct Covid testing of two percent passengers coming from abroad.

The NCOC meeting discussed the situation in the country about the new variant of Covid JN-1. The forum was told that Pakistan has not reported a single case of the new Covid variant so far.

The forum okayed Covid testing at the airports and borders.

Reporter Rabail Ashraf