My niece and great nephews in Victoria, BC just turned up with symptoms for COVID. They were told to self-quarantine and were not tested.
You cannot believe the numbers from any country which does not have a robust testing regime. That emphatically includes Canada along with the USA.
That's not to suggest that 18% of the population is infected. Merely suggests that positive tests is a useless metric because people are not tested.
Number of people admitted to hospital might be a better indicator -- though this has a lot of delay.
My niece and great nephews in Victoria, BC just turned up with symptoms for COVID. They were told to self-quarantine and were not tested.
You cannot believe the numbers from any country which does not have a robust testing regime. That emphatically includes Canada along with the USA.