MAKING SENSE OF COVID-19

The announcement at their conference on 11-13 June 2021 that the G7 countries (UK, USA, Canada, Japan, France, Germany & Italy) would...

At the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic it was hoped that the climate of places such as Sub-Saharan Africa and India would be too warm...

India Last week’s piece on India – click here to read - highlighted its battle against an overwhelming second wave of COVID-19 that shows...

India is recording its highest ever numbers of COVID-19 cases and deaths each day. Having appeared to recover well from its first wave of...

Brazil is recording more COVID-19 deaths each day than any other country in the world. Having never really recovered from either its...

Throughout this piece “COVID-19 vaccines” refers to all vaccines currently being manufactured worldwide irrespective of the country of...

India The Statistics India has been severely impacted by COVID-19. At the time of writing it has recorded 11,308,846 cases and 158,326...

NB Latin America refers to those countries as defined by the World Atlas. (1) Background to COVID-19 in Latin America Latin America has...

This piece will look at the current situation in Africa and focus on some of the individual countries of concern. Previously in the blog...

Africa has now recorded over 2 million cases of COVID-19 but relatively few deaths at just under 51,000. (1) In contrast Europe has...

COVID-19 could have more dire consequences in refugee camps than anywhere else in the world. The combination of a high density of people...

The explosion in the capital Beirut on 4 August 2020 came at a time when Lebanon was already struggling to cope with its outbreak of...

India's Figures India has the third highest number of cases of COVID-19 in the world after the USA and Brazil. At the time of writing,...

Since writing my first piece on Africa on 20 April 2020 (click here to read), there have now been 386,947 confirmed COVID-19 cases in...

Since writing my first piece on Africa on 20 April 2020 (click here to read), there have now been 386,947 confirmed COVID-19 cases in...

Since writing my first piece on Africa on 20 April 2020 (click here to read), there have now been 386,947 confirmed COVID-19 cases in...

UPDATE 24 June 2020 The total number of confirmed cases across the continent is now 328,995 with 8,683 reported deaths. There are pieces...

Concern is growing that early evidence suggests people from the BAME community (Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic) are disproportionately...

UPDATE 25 May 2020 In Asia, India, Pakistan and Bangladesh are seeing exponential rises in their number of new cases and deaths each day...