The part about testing is actually incorrect Rob. We don't have an abundance of test kits, and testing is not freely available. You have to meet applied criteria in order to get tested. Our testing numbers are waaay behind many other countries', which is helping to keep our case numbers artificially low.
We do a few thousand tests every week, some countries are doing 10-20,000 tests per day; South Korea is a good example, and being able
to isolate all the positive cases has resulted in hugely less new cases and deaths, as their recent figures clearly show.
The U.S. is an example of the same dodgy case data as ours, as they have up to now done almost no testing, probably due to having very few test kits available. They are listed as having just over 2000 cases, but it is widely believed that the true figure is waaay higher than that.
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