Before revision:  The infection fatality rate (IFR) is 1.88 \% and the predicted number of casualties is 173000 deaths with 9 million people infected at the end of the epidemic. However, keeping R_0 = 0.95 after April 27, would cause only 1881 casualties and 92955 infected individuals. Other cases, assuming the present trend, predict smaller incubation periods (4-5 days) and yield between 20000 and 70000 deaths and IFRs between 0.5 \% and 1.1 \%. We also consider doubling the number of casualties, with a death toll of 44000 individuals and 5.1 million infected individuals. Other choices of parameters also provide a good fit of the data, indicating the uncertainty of the results, which may differ from reported values. The analysis allows us to study how isolation and social distancing measures affect the time evolution of the epidemic .
After revision:  Therefore it is mandatory to reverse this growing trend in R_0 by applying control strategies to avoid a high number of infectious and dead individuals. The model provides an effective procedure to estimate epidemic parameters (fatality rate, transmission probability, infection and incubation periods) and monitor control measures during the epidemic evolution .