Virus count revised, new clusters emerge as France reopens

the surprising new figures were the result of a new accounting method,

So basically none of the numbers we're getting are reliable.

So basically none of the numbers we're getting are reliable.

Yes. And reading the article, the numbers we do have are probably an underestimate, as they no almost certainly are in many, or even most, countries.

It looks like France is trying to do the same things, i.e. lifting restrictions, that less savagely-hit countries are doing, even though they don't even know what the true situation of the epidemic is.

Unfortunately it looks like they jumped the gun.

Unfortunately it looks like they jumped the gun.

Did you read the whole article, or just the headline?