A slowing admissions rate suggests the rules are helping, but death rates from some regions are rising.
Most testing has been confined to hospitals and as the government expands the number of tests it carries out each day, we can expect confirmed cases to rise.
This doesn't necessarily mean the infection rate is rising. Medical staff might now have a better idea about who needs a test.Infection rate Their modelling, quoted in the government's daily news conferences, suggests this could reduce the infection rate by 75%.While these findings are positive, they are also based on predictions about the impact of people's behaviour and not the available reported data.
However, these rates of admission also reveal how the outbreak is at different stages in different parts of the country.
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