That's unlike several other hard-hit countries which have successfully pushed down their numbers of new cases, including Spain and Italy, which now have bell-shaped curves. By contrast, Italy was regularly hitting more than 5,000 cases per day in March but is currently experiencing figures in the low hundreds. For Johns Hopkins, the more important metric is the positivity rate -- that is, out of all tests conducted, how many came back positive for COVID-19. By contrast, Germany, which has tested far fewer people in relation to its population, has a positivity rate of 5 percent. Texas, which is experiencing a surge in cases after relaxing its lockdown, is a case in point.

Source: Daily Nation June 09, 2020 11:15 UTC