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More countries are reporting more cases of new COVID-19 cases every day, and data for the global pictures shows that the pandemic is far from over. Data from COVID-19 Dashboard by the Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at Johns Hopkins University (JHU) shows that daily cases are increasing compared to the first wave of COVID-19.
How has the COVID-19 trend has evolved over the past weeks?
The situation has improved slightly in the past week but case numbers have increased in 95 countries. In those 95 countries over 30 countries have twice as many new cases, 65 countries have more new cases. Additionally, 8 countries have the same number of new cases, over 97 countries have fewer new cases, 5 less than half as many new cases and only 8 countries have zero new cases for the past four weeks in a row out of 213 countries and territories. (Source: COVID-19 trend)