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Revision as of 23:54, March 16, 2020
Coronavirus mortality is estimated to be anywhere from less than 1% to as high as 50%, depending on the country and healthiness of the victims. The mortality rate, as well as the infection rate, will vary in countries reporting to a central data collection pointm such as the World Health Organization (WHO) based upon the number of people tested.
Italy
As of March 16, 2020, in Italy the total number of coronavirus diagnoses was 27,980 Monday. A total of 2,749 have recovered, while 2,158 have died from the disease. Slightly more than 23,000 are still infected with coronavirus, of whom more than 11,000 are hospitalized. The remainder are recuperating at home.
Nearly 2,000 of those who are hospitalized for this disease are being treated in intensive care
Testing in Italy has been done on 138,000 people.
South Korea
In South Korea, because of the density of population in a relatively small area, widespread testing was conducted fairly rapidly. The infection rate was reported at 4%, and mortality rate under 1% from a fairly large sample base of people tested.