COVID19 is not over

Masks are being burned and the virus is being proclaimed as over..

But..

As of the Mar 26 update the 7-day average of worldwide #Covid19 deaths has increased the last 9 days in a row.

It is now 9314 deaths/day, up 152 from a day earlier, and up 479 from a week ago.
The last time deaths were higher was February 25th.

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In the United States: 77,000 new COVID-19 diagnoses today. 1,300 new deaths.
And finally..

The more contagious #P1 variant from Brazil has now invaded N America—British ColumbiaFlag of Canada has a sudden cluster of 215+ new #P1 cases sequenced by one Vancouver lab.

MEANWHILE.. GERMANY WARNING THIS WAVE COULD BE THE WORST...

March 26 (Reuters) - Germany's third wave of the coronavirus could be the worst so far and 100,000 new daily infections is not out of the question, the head of the Robert Koch Institute for infectious diseases(RKI) said on Friday.

The number of new confirmed infections in Germany has jumped in recent weeks, driven by a more transmissible variant known as B117 and moves to ease some lockdown measures.

"There are clear signals that this wave will be worse than the first two waves," RKI's Lothar Wieler said, as he urged people to stay at home over Easter. "We have some very difficult weeks ahead of us."

The RKI later issued COVID-19 travel warnings for various neighbouring countries including France, Austria, Denmark and the Czech Republic.

People arriving from those countries must now provide a negative test less than 48 hours old at the German border. They must then go into a 10-day quarantine, which can be shortened by a second negative test after 5 days.