JN.1 Covid sub-variant not a cause for concern 

There were 594 new Covid-19 infections reported in India on Thursday. Six additional people died from the illness in the meantime—three from Kerala, two from Karnataka, and one from Punjab—becoming the most to die from the illness in a single day in over seven months. This has prompted the Indian news cycle to resume going into great (and frequently hysterical) detail on the pandemic. However, is there any need to worry about the epidemic returning right now? These four graphics, which summarise key takeaways from the first four years of the Covid-19 pandemic, indicate that not really.