Thread by @TelGlobalHealth

While the picture is broadly positive in the UK, the third wave of the coronavirus is causing devastation in countries like Brazil

@jriggers reports 🧵

The country reported 3,000 daily deaths on Tuesday and is close to reaching 300k deaths in total from the virus

“We are close to or facing a catastrophe,” a medical bulletin read last week, adding that intensive care occupancy is above 90% across half of its 26 states

And while Brazil is currently the epicentre of the latest Covid resurgence the picture is worrying in a number of other regions, the @who says

After six weeks of declining numbers of fatalities the death rate rose by 3% globally in the last seven days to 60,414 in total

Cases have been rising since the beginning of March, @who said

With this week seeing a “marked increase” in cases from South-East Asia, Europe, the Eastern Mediterranean and Western Pacific regions with “concerning trends” in some countries in the African & Americas regions too

The picture within regions remains uneven, however, with declining cases and deaths in badly-hit countries including the UK and the US, both of which have undertaken speedy vaccination drives

Given the unequal roll-out of vaccinations around the globe, the ongoing impact of new, more transmissible variants of the viruses, and reluctance in many countries to shut down entirely once again, cases and death rates are likely to continue to climb

And public health experts, including @AdamJKucharski, said that the numbers showed that the worst of Covid-19 is far from behind us globally

https://twitter.com/AdamJKucharski/status/1374627406926000128

.@jriggers has more on the story behind the data below

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telegraph.co.uk/global-health/…