Since the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic we have provided daily updates of confirmed cases and deaths for all countries.
Our source for confirmed cases and deaths, the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), recently announced that it would switch from a daily to a weekly reporting schedule from December. Our World in Data therefore has to transition away from the ECDC as a source to continue to provide daily updates of confirmed cases and deaths for you.
As of November 30, all data on confirmed cases and deaths will be sourced from the daily dataset provided by Johns Hopkins University.
We will not change the format (variable names and types) of our complete COVID-19 dataset. If you have any scripts or automated data processes, they will continue to work, but the source data will be different. Please make sure you update your source credits accordingly.
You can find more information about this change in our update here.
→ You can explore all this data in our COVID-19 Data Explorer.
Best wishes,Max
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