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A repository of data on coronavirus cases and deaths in the U.S.
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The worldwide Covid New cases and 7-day average data is not matching with WHO. #661

Closed Saurabh0027 closed 2 years ago

Saurabh0027 commented 2 years ago

OWID Data:

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/owid/covid-19-data/master/public/data/jhu/full_data.csv

New case statistics on OWID for worldwide on 2nd Mar, 3rd Mar, 4th Mar and 5th Mar are 1,651,874, 1,889,345, 1,702,615, 1,363,321 respectively.

WHO:

https://covid19.who.int/

However, for 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th March, the data available on WHO are 1,602,527 1,617,490, 1,707,745, 1,636,595 respectively.

We would like you to please take a look at whether the statistics are correct or need to be corrected in reference with the source mentioned above like WHO.

albertsun commented 2 years ago

Hi @Saurabh0027 we do not publish any world level statistics in this data repository. On our pages our data for most countries comes from JHU and not either OWID or WHO.