Illustration: Leon de Korte for The CorrespondentEven if you’re not a numbers person, you can’t really avoid them these days. Every day you hear about new cases, about "flattening the curve", or about exponential growth. This explainer gives you the most important numbers. What do the statistics tell us and what don’t they?For a global overview of figures on the coronavirus (or Covid-19) – such as the number of confirmed cases – it’s best to look at data from the World Health Organization (WHO), the United Nations organisation that deals with world public health. They’re the authority on...…Illustration: Leon de Korte for The CorrespondentEven if you’re not a numbers person, you can’t really avoid them these days. Every day you hear about new cases, about "flattening the curve", or about exponential growth. This explainer gives you the most important numbers. What do the statistics tell us and what don’t they?For a global overview of figures on the coronavirus (or Covid-19) – such as the number of confirmed cases – it’s best to look at data from the World Health Organization (WHO), the United Nations organisation that deals with world public health. They’re the authority on...WW…