The world is changing fast and to keep up you need local knowledge with global context.
Douglas Parker presents the Covid-19 pandemic in pictures and the countries experiencing the heaviest burden in new cases over the past 24 hours.
Global Covid-19 cases continue to grow at nearly 1.8 million per week and new case growth in America stabilised mid-July and has been falling.
Coverage includes the countries most affected by the pandemic and then a regional focus with particular attention to Europe, SA, Australia and New Zealand.
Covid-19 infections in South Africa have reached a peak and are now declining. New cases in the US have stabilised at a high level, says Douglas Parker.
Douglas Parker reports that Covid-19 infections in South Africa averaged 12,000 a day for the past two weeks and have reached a peak.
South Africa is seeing continuing high Covid-19 case numbers. The Western Cape’s case load has levelled and Gauteng now has the heaviest burden.
New Covid-19 cases in South Africa have averaged 9,000 a day for the past week and the percentage growth in case numbers continues at around 5% a day.
Having reached a low point of 1.46% growth in daily new cases on 22nd June, the rate of infection has steadily accelerated to 2.04% yesterday.
These graphs show how Covid-19 infections in the Western Cape are now higher than countries in Europe; New Zealand has 12 active cases.
Covid-19 infections are now higher in the Western Cape than in Europe, according to data expert Douglas Parker who has been tracking the Covid-19 pandemic.