by Tyler Durden Monday, Apr 12, 2021 - 09:44 AM Looking at the busy week ahead, the pandemic will remain in focus as the new case count is still moving higher at the global level even if the US now appears to have left covid behind. In the week ending last Friday April 9, the numbers recorded by John Hopkins University showed a 4.45m increase in cases globally, which compares with increases of 4.11m, 3.78m and 3.29m in the 3 weeks before that, so as Deutsche Bank notes, we've seen an acceleration in the past month, although the rate of increase is still shy of the peaks in December and January.