Or....just maybe.....40 are positive and 7,960 have colds and flu and were scared shitless by the news and imagined they had it.
This is getting like the radio broadcast of War Of The Worlds. People who don't think much are not able to get this much fear all day and process it.
We were in Summer with 30+ degree days and half the CBD were walking around with the flu. Our local medical centre went from walk in appointments to waiting for 5 days.
I do know of a group of 25 people who had a party and 2 of the 25yr olds were hospitalised and confirmed positive. The other 23 all got sick to varying degrees but were fine. Those 23 are not in the diagnosed numbers because they were not tested.
The issue with going down the path of your 'just maybe' is you must believe so many other things in which the odds are all tiny that for it to be true you have the odds of winning the lottery.
Eg if you believe 7,960 people don't have the coronavirus you must believe that there is a virus 200x more transmittable than the coronavirus and it going undetected by the media, by govts, by the WHO. By extension you would need to believe all experts were incorrect about the transmission rates. And so on.
It's far, far more plausible to say the tests are shit because it still acknowledges the coronavirus is real and active. Going down the 'just maybe' means you are wearing a tinfoil hat diving miles down the rabbit hole.