Waterloo Public Health released numbers regarding rates of coronavirus infection in individual municipalities on Friday. The agency shared the rates per 100,000 people rather than as a total using the region’s population estimates from a report tabled before council in February.

Dr. Hsiu-Li Wang, the region’s acting medical officer of health, says they chose to release the numbers in the interest of transparency and because they showed that the COVID-19 virus was affecting every municipality. “I think the message is that people can get it anywhere in our region,” she explained.

Wang said the numbers are affected by the concentration of testing in some areas. “They are, by default, skewed in how they show the distribution of the cases

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United States	Cases: 46 252 513 Deaths: 750 423 Recovered: 0
India	Cases: 34 321 025 Deaths: 459 652 Recovered: 0
Brazil	Cases: 21 835 785 Deaths: 608 235 Recovered: 0
United Kingdom	Cases: 9 215 683 Deaths: 141 607 Recovered: 0
Russia	Cases: 8 494 589 Deaths: 237 619 Recovered: 0

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