I will also point out that, at the moment, yes, about 2,5% of the symptomatic infected die (compared to a 0,1-0,2% depending on the year for flu), but that around 15% develop sufficiently severe respiratory symptoms to require multi-week hospitalization, and 5% are bad enough to require respirators.
Right now there are, here at least, few enough infected so that hospitals can take care of everybody at an adequate level, but if the numbers start to really scale up, we are going to see many doctors and healthcare personnel get sick themselves, hospitals getting flooded by sick people, and the level of care will go down dramatically.
This will not help keeping the mortality down.
I think even if its not stated loudly this is the main reason behind containment rules: they are not going to *really* stop the virus, its too contagious, but if you keep the spread slow enough, the healthcare system will be able to manage the flux of sick people without undue strain, and hopefully the hot season will then help putting an end to it.
Anyway, Italian status bulletin: here yesterday night official bulletin (the next will come out in a couple of hours) was 821 infected and 21 deaths, keeping in line with the 2,5% we have seen all week.
So, we've seen an increase of 10 times the infected in about 5-6 days.
Of course, as the world did not end in 2 days after the start of the panic (most people do not properly understand the power of a geometric progression), now everybody is starting making noises to stop all these bothersome containment measures and let students go to school, restart the economy etc... but it seems for the moment the recommendations of the WHO are still winning, so at least the schools will remain close for further 8 days in the 3 most infected regions.
(Notes about my own "apocalypse preparations": I always keep in my pantry one or two weeks worth of non perishable food, nothing fancy like those "prepper rations" somebody goes for, simply stuff that I use normally but that can last a lot and don't require cooking, like canned peas or beans, canned tuna and meat, crackers, honey, that kind of stuff.
In these days I'm simply making sure to use mostly fresh food and vegetables and avoid touching the canned reserve... ).