Eraldo Peres, Associated Press
As the delta variant continues to surge around the world, the landscape of outbreaks in South America and Latin America has begun to change drastically, according to data from The New York Times.
Daily case numbers remain high across the region and among some of the highest in the world, per WHO data.
Surprisingly, infection rates have begun to fall in several high caseload countries while infection rates have begun to surge in a few new countries, per New York Times data.
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Sakchai Lalit, Associated Press
The coronavirus pandemic is not over. The trending Twitter hashtag #CovidisNotOver and fresh waves of outbreaks around the world have sent a strong message.
With increasingly transmissible COVID-19 variants including the delta and delta plus variants and the newer lambda variant becoming more prevalent and faltering vaccination campaigns, many places around the world are experiencing renewed outbreaks, reported the Deseret News.
Even previous pandemic success stories have begun to falter.
Seoul announced stricter lockdowns Friday after recording two consecutive days of all-time high case numbers, reported the Deseret News.
Australia has extended lockdowns as surges continue, reported CNN.
Covid-19 pandemic: Everything you should not do, Brazil has done
By Orla Guerin
image captionJosildo died months before his 40th wedding anniversary
Had he lived Josildo de Moura would have celebrated his 40th wedding anniversary this December. Instead the devoted husband and father of five died of Covid in May, gasping for breath outside a neighbourhood clinic on the outskirts of Sao Paolo. He was 62, and like the vast majority of Brazilians, still waiting to be vaccinated. The pain is endless, says his wife Cida, sitting at her kitchen table, ringed by her children and grandchildren. And every day we hear about more families suffering as we suffer, losing a loved one.