COVID-19 Cases In India Cross 7,400 Mark Doctors Warn Of New Symptom Patterns As Virus May Attack Healthy Cells (Credits: Unsplash)
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COVID-19 cases are on the rise in India and live updates have been showing that the active infections toll has crossed 7,400 mark as 9 people are reported dead in the last 24 hours by the Health Ministry as on June 14, 2025. This surge in COVID-19 cases is linked to newly emerging variants, namely NB.1.8.1 and LF.7, while JN.1 continues to remain the dominant strain in those affected.
Kerala currently has the highest number of infections with 54 fresh ones that are pushing the active caseload to 2,109, which makes the majority of the nation’s total. Meanwhile, Delhi has also recorded 42 new infections and the active cases have reached 672 in total.
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The emergence of new subvariants, NB.1.8.1 and LF.7 has been recorded by the health department. However, the JN.1 strain still remains the most dominant and accounts for about 53% of all the positive COVID-19 cases in the country at present.
As we see the virus quickly changing form and the symptoms evolving simultaneously, health authorities are continuing to urge people to maintain precaution.
SARS-CoV-2 protein triggers immune attack on healthy cells, shows study (Credits: Unsplash)
A recent study has also discovered that a COVID-19 viral protein can latch itself onto healthy cells that then prompts the immune system to mistakenly attack them. This study, published in peer-reviewed scientific journal Cell Reports, talks about how the virus can indirectly trigger immune attacks on cells it never actually infects.
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Scientists from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem have discovered that the virus’s nucleocapsid protein (NP), which is usually identified for packaging viral RNA inside infected cells, can end up transferring to neighbouring uninfected epithelial cells and stick to their surfaces. Once it is on these healthy cells, the NP protein is mistakenly recognised by the immune system as infected. Then come in the Anti-NP antibodies that label these cells for destruction, setting off a harmful chain reaction.
Researchers believe that this immune attack may end up worsening the severity of the disease and lead to long-lasting symptoms seen in some COVID-19 patients. The team also used lab-grown cells, advanced imaging techniques and samples from COVID-19 patients to confirm the mechanism.
