I am not trying to jump ugly on you, but we have to consider what is “reported.”
Consider that the patient has to enter the system through a reporting slot.
There are only so many slots to go through. (These might be beds, testing stations, etc.)
What happens when slots are full? What happens to the patients in the queue?
A great deal of my professional life was dealing with queuing problems. The slow growth looks like a queue that is overloaded.
It will be interesting to see what happens when the 1500 new beds are completed next week. This should open more “slots” for the patents to get into the system.
We should also look at the volume in new cities over the coming days.
I think it’s a lack of testing kits combined with travel restrictions (no public transportation) and now private vehicles are restricted as well.
Patients can’t get to the hospital and those that do can’t be tested for this because, no kits.