TV host Mehdi Hasan tweeted a fortnight ago, “I’ve managed to dodge Covid-19 for almost four years.” But I eventually understood it. by the close of 2023.
Although Hasan’s symptoms were fortunately not too severe, he is among several individuals who have reported testing positive for Sars-CoV-2, the virus that caused the pandemic, four years after it first started to spread globally.
The JN.1 Covid variety, which first surfaced in France in September, is the reason why Covid-19 cases are beginning to increase once more. The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) data tracker indicates that in early January, the variant accounted for almost 60% of new illnesses.
