Most of the data seems to be skipping a day.

[airguru]

I am observing this problem in the update process for few days already. Most of the countries that I randomly select show this behaviour:

The last value is correct, but the historical data seem to be shifted one day forward, overwriting the second-to-last value. Confirmed on multiple countries where I have independent access to time series.

[jakobzhao]

Thanks @airguru, I also cced to @xuf3,

airguru, can you help us figure out a solution to this issue?

[airguru]

@jakobzhao Yes, I would like to contribute to this project! I just feel I need a bit more feedback :)
I still like this project as the most convenient visualisation, but I would like it to have more improvements.

Let me look at where the shift might be happening.

Would you consider downloading data from https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/ as that seems like the fastest updated source I have seen so far. I could implement the downloader, for all countries excluding China and US.

[jakobzhao]

Thank you! Yes, we have considered world meters, which has multiple benefits. But it is not our immediate needs, because we already had a crawler for countries. We are thinking of making a crawler for U.S. cases (check here), but not succeed.

[sijukoiply]

What about scrapping data from https://topic.newsbreak.com/covid-19.html?s=i0 for US

[jakobzhao]

good suggestion @sijukoiply we will consider that!!thank you! @xuf3 @whichsteven @lolakang @joshuaji03

[NikolaosAndritsosHNMS]

Sorry to intervene, but I noticed that from the virus.csv file, the entire row of 2020-03-16 data are missing.

[jakobzhao]

@NikolaosAndritsosHNMS your observation is absolutely correct. we have just recovered that row.