The global coronavirus pandemic has, in less than four months, swept the globe, brought economies to a sudden and grinding halt, put an unimaginable strain on even the best prepared health systems and led to changes in everyone’s working and personal lives as jurisdiction after jurisdiction imposes lockdown measures.

For many people, the infection results in mild symptoms. Some people may not even be aware that they are infected leading to widespread underreporting. One consequence of this is that the fatality rate of COVID 19, the disease, caused by the virus, is overstated. At the time of writing, the World Health Organisatio...