I am from India, and the statistics released by authorities are reliable. Further, Indian Government has adopted lock down as well as ceiling, a kind of social distancing, to combat the COVID-19 pandemic.

Felipe A P L Costa , for the First question I think we can believe only data of our own country. So,its difficult to accept data of any other country.

Sri Lanka is still adopting. Because most of people follow the preventive measures correctly but 0.1% don't.

I'm from Pakistan.Though Statistics of health authorities in our country are unreliable. But all the authorities in our country are playing important role, to aware us about social distancing in these crucial crisis. They doing their best, including media, police, doctors and even military but unfortunately, public is not much cooperating.

I live in the United States. I think the statistics being shared are reliable given what they are. However, we are still only testing individuals with some level of symptoms. We are not conducting universal screening so it is impossible to know the real infection rate. Many states have implemented a "stay-at-home" order that makes gatherings of more than 10 people illegal. My state (Virginia) carries a possible fine of $2500 and 1 year in prison for those who break the order. It is in force through June 10, 2020 unless rescinded by law. Only essential employees are supposed to work outside their homes. Individuals are only supposed to leave their homes for groceries, necessary medical attention, or to care for someone else. However, many southern states are not implementing the same level of restrictions. Florida has reopened some of their beaches after closing them for only a week. I am quite concerned those places will be our next New York City.

I live in Nigeria. I think the statistics being shared by my country is reliable and the scientists in my country are working round the clock to help curtail this pandemic, though not without little challenges here and there like not enough testing laboratories, testing kit, and compliance to the social distance rule too, but the authorities are really doing a Great job

I am living in Brunei. It is generally agreed that the government here is being pretty transparent in sharing data with the public. We have details about every confirmed case in terms of what is known about the path of infection, their age, gender, symptoms and back ground health.

It is also generally agreed that the government have acted quickly and relatively efficiently to implement testing, social distancing, quarantining and boarder closures in order to 'flatten the curve'. We have now had 2 days with no new cases.

Our next concern is how to control a potential second wave if social distancing rules were to be relaxed during Ramadan and Hari Raya when large gatherings are very much part of the normal run of things.

I live in the UK. We are currently only testing those that are admitted to hospital, so, although the statistics are accurate, they do not truly reflect the amount of positive people we have in the community. I work in recovery/critical care as a Nurse, and we have patients on wards that are also not being tested, but being "treated as positive", they also are not counted in the number of confirmed cases. The Online National Statistics (ONS) database for the UK can give you more figures up to and including 20th March 2020 to further your research.

In response to your second question, the UK is currently on a partial lock-down. That means only essential workers are to travel to and from work, people are allowed to exercise outside with their own household groups for up to 1 hour per day and 1 nominated person from each household to shop for groceries each week. This is however not being adhered to by many small pockets in every community and I therefore believe a stricter lock-down is imminent, particularly as the UK is going to hit it's peak in 5-10 days.

I'm from Tunisia and I currently live in Portugal because I am doing my PhD here. Even if the statistics cannot be 100% reliable due to the still limited screening rate, I would say that the shared statistics are reliable given what they are and I trust the authorities whatever the truth is, because it is the time to trust each other and to think together on how to overcome the crisis. Since social distancing is considered the best measure in the first line of defense, authorities, social media, scientists, the public among themselves, are all trying to implement it, to respect it and to help each other to support the situation because it is unbearable for some people especially with the emerging social issues.. Though the serious difficulties, we can all see and feel, at a certain level, the social solidarity and how much people realize the importance of cooperation between Politics, Sciences, Economy , Public from all religious and intellectual backgrounds ... to face any crisis ... it will be a turning point and a change for the better in the history of humanity ...

I live in New Zealand. The statistics here are accurate and issued daily, but scientists are urging government to set up random testing to establish infection levels outside the recognized "hot spots". Our lock-down is similar to that in UK (Louise Fisher, above).

Business leaders and economists are trying to get softer terms to help industry.

Find out more at: Covid19.govt.nz

I have a question, from the person of india, Nigera, US, UK, New Zealand, Tunisia...

have all the citizens been tested for COVID_19?

Because according to statistics,

' we can't say any data reliable if we have not 100% accuracy. "

I live in the U.S. I believe the statistics so far released on COVID 19 are reliable and at best what researchers can work off on. There may be variations in their findings, but l believe in the end they will all be pointing to the same conclusion. It is too early to come out with any definitive findings from the many on-going clinical trials around the globe.

Preprint Investigating COVID-19: Quantifying recurring methodological...

Good ideas

I'm Belgian.

I think the statistics here are quite reliable. BUT one has to take into account a lot of symptomatic people are not being tested due to limited means (max 3000 tests a day until yesterday or so). Second due to the inherence of the test, many tested will show up as false negative (like in any other country).

There probably will be old people in retirement homes dying of COVID without ending up in the statistics. Maybe one has to compare the total number of deaths in March/ April/ May with the same month last year.

There are now a lot of emergency care patients (10%?) without respiratory complaints who are found positive on thoracic CAT scan. At this moment it is very hard to extrapolate to the general public, but i think a lot more people have been infected than ever suspected. Antibody testing will point out whether this is true or not.

Social distancing is mandatory. Only supermarkets and pharmacies are open. All else closed.

If you can work from home, you do so.

Police is stopping people on the road and asking about their destination.

We succeeded in flattening the curve. The number of hospital admissions are slowly decreasing. The increased ICU capacity can manage the flow at this moment.

We lack personal protection equipment, espescially in retirement homes.

For now the statistics reports for Covid -19 are reliable.

The infection rate is very low and watching it at very close look.

I percieve that statistics in Mexico are reliable, Dr. Hugo López Gatell, Sub-Minister of Health is a very prepared scientific who has had leadership to work with interdisciplinary professionals, and has had a great coordination with other sector in order to inform and guide public desitions.

I am in the US, just a couple hours outside New York. I think the statistics are valid and agree that more testing will make them more indicative of reality. What bothers me is that it is difficult to find the real statistics versus how the news media interprets them.

Germany:

First: Yes. Second: Yes.

I am from India, and the statistics released by authorities are reliable. Further, Indian Government has adopted lock down as well as ceiling, a kind of social distancing, to combat the COVID-19 pandemic.

Statistics all around the world are acceptable however, the samples are restricted to hot spots and don't reflect reality. A wider range of samplings and real time testing are needed to make prediction as when a ceiling is reached. However, current data indicate a decreasing trends appear in certain regions.

In Iraq, as I see and hear a curfew has been in place but not have been observed by all people. Day to day living people fining it harmful to stick to.

Generally, the world was surprised by this unwelcomed intruder and politicians failed to exploit what China experienced. That is either due to their ignorance or being ill advised. Most of them suffer from the Dunning -Crugger effect.

At last we will come to terms with this

Virus willingly or by accepting such reality

I thank Innocent, Julie and the other colleagues for the information and comments.

In Brazil, the number of cases and deaths are escalating. After the release of today’s figures, the totals add up to 23,430 and 1,328, respectively. I estimate that the number of new cases is now increasing at a daily rate of at least 8%. (This figure was already higher.)

Unfortunately, the data released by the Brazilian government is not reliable. At least not as much as I think they should be.

In any case, we are still far from the top of the curve.

fist : I am from Iraq, and the statistics released by authorities are somewhat reliable.

second :yes

1. from France. Statistics are quite realible, national and by regions

2. Yes

Nigeria

1) statistics are reliable based on tests conducted.

2) yes, they got us locked up and asked us to distance ourselves but you find Nigerians doing otherwise.. Our Northern region just started the rise and they are the most vulnerable.

I don't believe it is weakening. I believe as a Virus, looking for an adaptation for survival is Mutating and currently in its Latency stage. Watch what is happening in Korea and some part of China.. you see people who have tested negative earlier now testing positive again. this you will agree with me supports my argument.

1) The data published in official and public media are quite reliable.

2) Yes, in public places a minimum distance of 2 meters between people.

Greetings,

Dariusz Prokopowicz

I totally agree with the response of Mahendra Pal