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> The number of new cases was highest in early to mid-February and has been lower in the past two weeks.

What? That doesn't matter at all.

The number of new cases globally is growing at an increasing rate- the number will eclipse that from early-mid february shortly.

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> The number of new cases globally is growing at an increasing rate

That's just not true. The daily increase in total cases globally has been going down since mid February.

https://www.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/bda7594... (Link fixed, thanks)

I can't see anything at your link - first it asks for a login, then I login with Google and get an error. Here [1] it looks like for a while around mid february the daily increase was getting less, but it's picking up again.

[1] https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/

But that's most likely limited by testing resources. Many of the countries that haven't reported cases are developing nations that don't have the resources to do thousands of daily tests. Similarly, countries like the US have been lagging in their testing. Similarly, France has stopped doing tests except for people who are critically-ill.

So, it would stand to reason that you would see a decrease in the number of confirmed cases if there's an artificial limit in the number of cases reported.

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