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Possible problems with the number of active cases at the prefectural level #94

Closed lpusztai closed 2 years ago

lpusztai commented 2 years ago

May I just have a note on some pieces of data that have appeared there over the past week or so. Despite decreasing numbers of active cases, it seems as if the number of cases, when broken down to prefectures , would be increasing. E.g. for Kumamoto prefecture it appears as if there haven't been any recoveries over the past week.

In addition, when you add up regional data, the sum (ca. 41,000) is much higher than the cumulative one reported at the top of the page (currently ca. 24,000).

From the above, I suspect that the numbers of daily recoveries have not been deducted from the actual prefectural numbers of cases for some time now -- could this possibly be the case?

liquidx commented 2 years ago

Thanks for reporting this. I wish I got to this earlier, but it should be fixed now. We had an issue with the way we were parsing the PDFs from the government site which stopped working last week, so the recovery numbers were not updated. I've fixed the issue and it should be updated correctly tonight.