That's pretty alarmist.
You left out the phrase "of reported cases"
" "Globally, about 3.4 percent of reported Covid-19 cases have died, Dr. Tedros said. "in comparison, seasonal flu generally kills far fewer than 1 percent of those infected.
The estimate takes into account the growing number of infections being recorded outside China, mostly in Iran, Italy and South Korea.
Dr. Margaret Harris, a W.H.O. spokeswoman, said the figure was a crudely calculated snapshot of the disease's death rate globally, and is expected to change over time, and vary from place to place.
The figure does not include mild cases that do not require medical attention and is skewed by Wuhan, where the death rate is several times higher than elsewhere in China. It is also quite possible that there are many undetected cases that would push the mortality rate lower."
You think? Seeing how, until today, that under *****'s CDC guidelines, Doctors were restricted from testing for coronavirus on people displaying symptoms unless the person had been traveling to certain countries or met other narrow criteria.
So you can't have a mortality rate unless you know what the denominator is (the number of people who caught it). We have NO CLUE what that number is.