On 14th October the WHO released its annual Global Tuberculosis Report. Its contents make for grim reading. We review its alarming contents below, contextualized from the outset by the Report’s own conclusions which included the following devastating understatement: ‘This report shows that progress towards TB milestones and targets has been hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic … Global TB targets are mostly off-track.’ What follows reviews through the Report topic-by-topic, revi