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30.05 - 19:31
Coronavirus death graph shows how March’s lockdown saved lives: expert
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A steady flattening — and what may be early signs of a decrease — in Canada’s coronavirus deaths reflect the locking down of society starting in mid-March, an expert says. “It’s good news — this is what we want to see,” says Steven Hoffman of York University. “A flattening first, and then a quick reduction. “That being said, it highlights that we have challenges — there are still too many people dying every day of COVID-19.” The graph shows an upward trend until mid-April and then (clearly, in retrospect) a slowing and flattening pattern.
That reflects the shutdown and social-distancing measures that started in Canada about a month previously, in mid-March, he says: someone who dies of the novel coronavirus was likely infected three or four
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COVID-19
United States
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Cases: 46 252 513
Deaths: 750 423
Recovered: 0
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India
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Cases: 34 321 025
Deaths: 459 652
Recovered: 0
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Brazil
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Cases: 21 835 785
Deaths: 608 235
Recovered: 0
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United Kingdom
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Cases: 9 215 683
Deaths: 141 607
Recovered: 0
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Russia
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Cases: 8 494 589
Deaths: 237 619
Recovered: 0
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