Two different matters;
Case rate;
Down to lockdown rules, adherence to precautions and social distancing etc. etc. etc.
Fatality rate;
Reality related to age, health and fitness of population
Perception related to measuring method. For us I think it is anyone who dies within 14[?] days of a positive COVID test or with COVID-19 anywhere on the death certificate.
As an interesting and related aside, for many years Brazil kept it's road traffic fatalities down by not counting anyone who died after the ambulance had collected them from the road. They "died in an ambulance" rates were huge, but nobody cared about that. I have seen people literally thrown into an ambulance before any treatment began at all.
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