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Spain negative new cases #608

Closed mercedeslga closed 3 years ago

mercedeslga commented 3 years ago

Hi!!

How come that Spain last new cases (march 2nd) is a negative number?? It would be impossible, right?

Thank you!

edomt commented 3 years ago

Hi @mercedeslga

We source our data on COVID-19 confirmed cases and deaths from the COVID-19 Data Repository by the Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at Johns Hopkins University: https://github.com/CSSEGISandData/COVID-19. This page also lists their sources, country by country. We report this data without alterations, but issues can be raised in their GitHub repository: https://github.com/CSSEGISandData/COVID-19/issues

DColadas commented 3 years ago

The Spanish Ministry of Health reported that the reason for the negative number of new cases is the removal of duplicate cases in Catalonia (some cases were assigned two different IDs by the computer system). I remember a similar adjustment made back in May.

Mellyorawalker1 commented 3 years ago

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