I'm sorry to say that here in Spain the situation is far worse than that. Number of cases is totally useless. It's just a fantasy, a way that governments, specially ours, use to make up the reality. Actually Spain is with Belgium in the worst place of the world counting the only relevant index: deaths per habitants.
China could be worse, but their deaths number is impossible to know for us. Simplest option is to think it's been much much worse than they say.
Actually number of deaths is almost certainly manipulated here too. The fact that nursing homes and people dying at home haven't been counted has been on the news weeks ago. Government just refused to adjust the numbers even when comunidades started to supply the corrected numbers. Autopsies aren't being made. And there are directives on what to write on death certificates so the virus doesn't appear except in hospitals and if the deceased suffered no other previous conditions. Sometimes last cause like stroke or heart attack are being said to be the cause.
There are already estimations based on previous years deaths and they're a 50% higher at a minimum, just think that traffic and on the job fatalities must be almost non-existent so it's probably more than estimated.
Everything is mediated by politics. Yesterday a high medical officer in Madrid resigned over end of quarantine because one of the two parties in the regional government imposed its views over technical criteria.
Belgium uses a different method to count deaths. If I'm not wrong, any death in this period (any not explained by other obvious causes) is counted as killed by coronavirus by default. Is probably not fair to compare them with the other countries at this moment. They are commiting an error by excess when all the other are commiting the opposite type of error.
China could be worse, but their deaths number is impossible to know for us. Simplest option is to think it's been much much worse than they say.
Actually number of deaths is almost certainly manipulated here too. The fact that nursing homes and people dying at home haven't been counted has been on the news weeks ago. Government just refused to adjust the numbers even when comunidades started to supply the corrected numbers. Autopsies aren't being made. And there are directives on what to write on death certificates so the virus doesn't appear except in hospitals and if the deceased suffered no other previous conditions. Sometimes last cause like stroke or heart attack are being said to be the cause.
There are already estimations based on previous years deaths and they're a 50% higher at a minimum, just think that traffic and on the job fatalities must be almost non-existent so it's probably more than estimated.
Everything is mediated by politics. Yesterday a high medical officer in Madrid resigned over end of quarantine because one of the two parties in the regional government imposed its views over technical criteria.