Bet the true death rate is already between 7% and 8%.
Very nasty virus indeed. The average flu virus kills less than < 1% and this killer is just starting. The Spanish Flu of 1918 started with a death rate on about 2.5% and then slowly built up to a killing rate of about 28%.
F'Chinese and their genetic virus mutation experiments.
I've read that the death rate in Canada is 9%.