indicating/which indicates

[diamondcutter]

Then, from 2013 to 2016, there was the most widespread outbreak of the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) in West Africa, which resulted in a major loss of life in a number of west African countries. 11,310 deaths were officially recorded, but the actual number of deaths is probably much higher. The virus was extremely infectious and the survival rate was as low as 30% in some areas, indicating that very few people got over it.

Source: English, Book 3, 2019 edition, a textbook for senior high school students in China, Pearson Education and Beijing Normal University Press

The virus was extremely infectious and the survival rate was as low as 30% in some areas, indicating that very few people got over it.

This sentence means:
1. The virus was extremely infectious and the survival rate was as low as 30% in some areas, which indicates that very few people got over it.
2. The virus was extremely infectious and the survival rate was as low as 30% in some areas. That is to say, very few people got over it.
Am I right?

 

[Barque]

Yes.

 

[5jj]

However you word it, that clause is redundant. If the survival rate was as low as 30%, we don't need to be told that very few people got over it.