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data: India Testing Data on April 14 #2610

Closed RuijingZ closed 2 years ago

RuijingZ commented 2 years ago

Country

India

Domain

Testing

Which data is inaccurate or missing?

the value of new_tests on April 14 does not seem correct. <html xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" xmlns:x="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:excel" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40">

iso_code | continent | location | date | new_tests -- | -- | -- | -- | -- IND | Asia | India | 4/12/2022 | 406251 IND | Asia | India | 4/13/2022 | 429323 IND | Asia | India | 4/14/2022 | 35855632 IND | Asia | India | 4/15/2022 | 367213 IND | Asia | India | 4/16/2022 | 300918

Why do you think the data is inaccurate or missing?

35855632 is about 100 times than normal data.

camappel commented 2 years ago

Our source for testing data in India is https://github.com/datameet/covid19. This sudden increase is probably due to a backlog of tests being reported all at once. We will remove the positive rate for the week following 2022-04-14 to account for the sudden increase