[deanhills]

This entire coronavirus situation is very confusing to be honest.

To begin with, it’s hard to compare the statistics of fatalities and recoveries if each country as they all registered their first cases at different times. And hence the virus has been affecting each one of them for a different period of time. 

I have the same problem with this.  Like in Canada they had their first case on 28 January.  They've had 77 cases since then, most of them have recovered and only one fatality.  You can check the stats in Wikipedia here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_coron..._in_Canada

Now look at Europe and particularly Northern Italy whose first cases started on 30 January, 2 days after Canada.  As far as I know it is the same strain virus.  They must be dealing with it differently, and for the stats maybe we're getting it differently too.  It's very confusing though.  
https://www.pharmaceutical-technology.co...s-tourism/

This is what the article below says - but still - Canada is also very closely connected with airports.  Like Toronto, Vancouver and Calgary have huge traffic and there is a very close and large network with China with plenty of air travel:

The high number of coronavirus infection cases in Italy may be explained by the expanding air travel with China.

Italy is the European nation with the highest number of air connections with China after the air connections between the two countries tripled earlier this year.

Italy signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with China in early January 2020 to expand the air links between the two countries in order to expand tourism.

The weekly passenger flights to China were announced to be increased by 108, and by a further 56 through 2021 and 2022.