Does number of confirmed cases include #deaths and #recovered?

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Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) Cases, provided by JHU CSSE

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Open Ling-Hong-symphonyrm opened 4 years ago

Ling-Hong-symphonyrm commented 4 years ago

Is it true that #Confirmed cases = #infectious + #death + #recovered? Or they are separate numbers?

Maanuj-Vora commented 4 years ago

Yes, confirmed cases does include deaths and recovered. To get the active cases, do the following

active_cases = (confirmed_cases - deaths) - recovered