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Although number of #COVID19 deaths has fallen today, which is encouraging, there has been another ratcheting up of reported cases, up from 4450 yesterday to 5903 today. There are two things about this. First that if you look at the attached chart, updated to yesterday,...
short multi-day periods of case stabilisation have always been false dawns. But secondly all these published stats may be semi useless in gauging the actual spread and growth, because they cover a period of testing capacity that is inadequate but growing, and...
inevitably the more people tested, the more who will show up as verified cases. Very difficult to get a handle on the actual incidence of the illness.
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