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There are lots of military, armoured vehicles in main cities of Myanmar @Chitpan8

As Camilla Holten Moller of @SSI_dk told me: "this is the calm before the storm" @kakape

Data from #Covid19 worldwide on February 13: + 346,764 cases in 24 hours, i.e. 108,536,515 in total @CovidTracker_fr

Global cases fall, but R is rising @video4me

Data from #Covid19 worldwide on February 13: + 346,764 cases in 24 hours, i.e. 108,536,515 in total + 10,705 deaths in 24 hours, i.e. 2,394,479 in total

08-FEB-2021 :: We are at peak vaccine euphoria

We are at peak vaccine euphoria

Global covid19 cases [are] falling at just under 2%/day @video4me

No one wants to think that

If you have a "normal" pandemic that is fading, but a "British variant" that is surging, the combined total can look like a flat, manageable situation. @spignal

They fancied themselves free, wrote Camus, ―and no one will ever be free so long as there are pestilences.

We've updated our preprint on the transmissibility of SARS-CoV-2 VOC 202012/01, aka B.1.1.7, with new statistical and modelling methods.

Headline: we estimate VOC is 43–82% more transmissible than preexisting variants.

Brazil, P1 variant @DrTomFrieden

Pazuello said. "But it is more contagious. By our analysis, it is three time more contagious."

04-JAN-2021 :: The ''warp speed'' Vaccine Roll Out is chasing the coat Tails of the Virus.

''Viruses exhibit non-linear and exponential characteristics''

Colorized scanning electron micrograph of a cell (blue) heavily infected with SARS-CoV-2 virus particles (green), isolated from a patient sample. Image captured at the NIAID Integrated Research Facility (IRF) in Fort Detrick, Maryland

International Markets

Currency Markets at a Glance WSJ

Euro 1.2134

Dollar Index 90.34

Japan Yen 105.10

Swiss Franc 0.8913

Pound 1.3888

Aussie 0.7779

India Rupee 72.6115

South Korea Won 1102.12

Brazil Real 5.3701

Egypt Pound 15.601

South Africa Rand 14.469

Dollar Index Chart INO 90.348

Euro versus the Dollar Chart 1.2134

Financial conditions in the Euro-area have never been more easier @radingandMore

#Nikkei Index closes above 30,000. Last time that happened was mid 1990, 30 years ago! @jsblokland

Warren Buffett’s Favorite Valuation Metric Is Ringing an Alarm - Bloomberg @C_Barraud

08-FEB-2021 :: The Markets Are Wilding So here we are pirouetting atop the most expensive market in history

было бы большой честью поговорить с вами @elonmusk

@elonmusk I am become meme, Destroyer of shorts

$BTC Chart @Matt__Bitcoin 47,300.00

Commodities

Commodity Markets at a Glance WSJ

Gold INO 1818.00

Brent almost at $64 a barrel. The latest gains are mostly due to an extreme cold snap in #Texas, which has caused wells to shutdown, disrupted road transport and led to power outages. @PaulWallace123

Sub Saharan Africa

South Africa has reached the end-of-wave threshold nationally; new cases are now under 15% of the peak value since the start of the wave. @saCOVID19mc

Prevalence of anti-SARS-CoV-2 antibodies among blood donors in Northern Cape, KwaZulu-Natal, Eastern Cape, and Free State provinces of South Africa in January 2021.

We all know by now ''viruses exhibit non-linear and exponential characteristics' [its evidently binary]

The estimated seroprevalence ranges from 31.8% in NC to 62.5% in the EC and is at least 8 fold higher than the official case count

Update on the total number of #covid19 cases in #Africa by date @BeautifyData

Africa is currently reporting a million new infections about every 44 days and has reported more than 3,765,000 since the pandemic began @ReutersGraphics

Countries w/ high COVID-19 avg case/day increase past 2wks @jmlukens

6 countries are still at the peak of their infection curve. Seychelles Mayotte South Sudan [at peak] Senegal ivory Coast 95% Ghana 93%

Somalia: 553%

Antigua and Barbuda: 517%

South Sudan: 452%

Congo (Brazzaville): 286%

Seychelles: 170%

Benin: 157%

Jamaica: 150%

Gabon: 138%

Mongolia: 132%

Iraq: 126%

Turning to Africa the Spinning Top

COVID19 Treatment in Tanzania @Chahali

Drinking The Kool Aid

Five brigadier-generals have reportedly died in Tanzania in the past two weeks after developing Covid-like symptoms @thecontinent_

@MagufuliJP #COVID19 was equivalent to “Satan” and that it would naturally be defeated with prayer, since “Satan cannot reside in the body of Christ.” 27-JUL-2020 :: Drinking the Kool-Aid

Doctors are forbidden to list Covid-19 as a cause of death, encouraged instead to write “acute pneumonia” on death certificates.

“Let the government avoid stammering about this while people are vanishing in my constituency. I’m tired of funerals and even today, they are burying a child of a ward councillor. Sometimes I go there without notifying you Mr Speaker,” said Issay, according to The Citizen newspaper.

The politicians who mismanaged the pandemic committed "social murder" and must be held accountable, writes @bmj_latest @KamranAbbasi @EricTopol

Merkel pronounced “You cannot fight the pandemic with lies and disinformation...the limits of Populism are being laid bare.”

The seven patients fell ill with diarrhoea, vomiting and bleeding after attending a burial in Goueke sub-prefecture.

Merkel pronounced “You cannot fight the pandemic with lies and disinformation...the limits of Populism are being laid bare.”

The African @jairbolsonaro is of course @MagufuliJP

https://bit.ly/2Lu9K3F

Four Ebola deaths in Guinea, the first since 2016: health ministry @AFP

Those still alive have been isolated in treatment centres, the health ministry said.

But on Sunday, DRC reported a fourth new case of Ebola in North Kivu province where a resurgence of the virus was announced on Feb. 7.

The first known emergence of Ebola Zaire—the hottest subtype of Ebola virus— happened in September, 1976, when the virus erupted simultaneously in fifty-five villages near the Ebola River.

Yesterday Zimbabwe’s government published details of $1.4bn of loans from Afreximbank to the country’s central bank (under sovereign guarantee) between 2017 and 2019. @jsphctrl

Ebola Zaire is a slate-wiper in humans. It killed eighty- eight per cent of the people it infected. Apart from rabies and the human immunodeficiency virus, H.I.V., which causes aids, this was the highest rate of mortality that has been recorded for a human virus.

Ebola was spread mainly among family members, through contact with bodily fluids and blood. Many of the people in Africa who came down with Ebola had handled Ebola-infected cadavers. It seems that one of Ebola’s paths wends to the living from the dead.

Zimbabwe: Explosive cartel report uncovers the anatomy of a captured state @dailymaverick

Not exactly the most concessional terms ever. And check the fees.

21-JAN-2019 :: The Mind Game that ZANU-PF played on its citizens has evaporated in a puff of smoke.

South Africa All Share Bloomberg

Dollar versus Rand Chart @ishaa_waweru 14.477

Egypt Pound versus The Dollar Chart INO 15.6128

Egypt EGX30 Bloomberg

Traffic is flowing freely at the tollgate now. At the moment it's just the press & the police. @briticoyemo

“The revolutionary contingent attains its ideal form not in the place of production, but in the street''

Nigeria All Share Bloomberg

Ghana Stock Exchange Composite Index Bloomberg

Equinor ASA of Norway is writing off its $982million on liquified natural gas project in Tanzania (TLNG) @moneyacademyKE

State-Owned Equinor ASA of Norway is writing off its $982million (Kshs100b) on liquified natural gas project in Tanzania (TLNG), as overall economics have not improved and Tanzania has delayed approval of building onshore gas processing plant and export facility.

A material negative Signal