The UK’s Chief Scientific Adviser indicated that the introduction of more stringent controls on movement would reduce the total number of COVID-19 related fatalities to below 20,000 in a good scenario. That figure, translated into fatalities per million inhabitants, is pictured in our chart, which serves to illustrate how much further this crisis has to run in such a ‘good’ scenario: the UK has barely started to climb the hill, whereas Italy is already half way up.
Refresh this chart in your browser | Edit the chart in Datastream
This chart is taken from Fathom’s daily Recession Watch newsletter. To subscribe, please click here. Opt in to join Fathom’s weekly Recession Watch Forum and participate in lively discussions with our team and others in the community.
Next forum date: Monday 6 April 2020, 4:00pm GMT
_________________________________________________________________________________
Datastream
Financial time series database which allows you to identify and examine trends, generate and test ideas and develop view points on the market.
Refinitiv offers the world’s most comprehensive historical database for numerical macroeconomic and cross-asset financial data which started in the 1950s and has grown into an indispensable resource for financial professionals. Find out more.
