13/9/20: COVID19 Update: Russia and BRIICS

 Updating my long-overdue charts for Coronavirus pandemic in Russia:

One worrying trend is the uptick in smoothed data for new cases in the last two weeks and a smaller corresponding increase in new deaths, as noted in the chart above.

Looking at the controversial mortality rates:

To highlight the above, consider the following differences between some key countries/country groups:

Note: China does not enter the comparatives, since it has, officially, less than 100,000 cases to-date.