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Hmmm, I bow to your thorough word count. I misunderstood your initial comment to suggest that the report was addressing Covid 19 as a pandemic, including the usual topics of discussion (hospitals, deaths, PPE and all the rest - which of course it is not) and for that I apologise.
A report on transportation turnover might mention that a shortage of fuel has affected things and (likely conversely) a collapse in prices also even though either/both of those are ongoing. A report on high street retail activity would mention adverse weather, etc., including "lockdown" as factors. Similarly, the authors of this report seem to try and within reason bring in all factors significantly (or perhaps not so much as some might think) affecting their subject.
This report, like so many, covers a specific period and all reports tend to have a cut-off - the content will be collected and presented as "correct/complete from-to" in some way or other (perhaps with caveats/limitations), or just "up to...". To insist that an interim or annual update is prevented from being presented while the long term, not to mention ultimate, effects of something are yet to emerge is of course missing the point, as I feel certain you realise. This report is a summary covering a 12 month period since the last one, another will follow in 12 months time. For example, it would be unrealistic/unreasonable to insist that because it dominates any evaluation of them, forming an annual assessment of Afghanistan, Syria or Yemen for the past years or in the future cannot be done until the conflicts in these countries are over.