Today we have launched a new page on our website: the COVID-19 testing monitor. This page gives an overview of COVID-19 testing activity and positivity rates for those countries for which we collect COVID-19 testing data. Visit the COVID-19 testing monitor here: newsnodes.com/covidtesting/ 

bubble chart of daily new cases and daily new tests (average last 7 days)

Starting today all Newsnodes-users are now able to write and share their own analysis or COVID-19 visualization in the 'Articles' section on our website. The easy to use editor can be found here.

We have now added historic test charts to our website, to provide all testing data available on our website. These charts are very useful to get the bigger picture about how a country is doing compared to earlier this year and what the current COVID-19 trend is in a country.

Note: these charts are only available for countries for which we have COVID-19 testing data on.

Today we have updated the region charts which appear on each country page. Previously a chart with the evolution of total cases per capita of several countries from the same region was displayed there. These charts were useful in the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic, but at this point in time it's more insightful to learn about the 7-day moving average of new cases and new COVID-19 deaths being reported. For a fair comparison these charts are corrected to population size, giving some interesting information in how a country is doing compared to other countries in the region.

example: 7 day moving average chart of new cases in South Asia

During the past week we have made several changes to our website. On the 'worldmonitor'-page and on the page of each continent we have added 'week-over-week trend' information. This is useful as a early warning indicator for change in trends in countries. The week-over-week trend is available for both New confirmed cases (7 day moving average) and Positivity rate (7 day average).

We have also added 100 historic bar charts for each country in addition to the existing 25 day bar charts. These charts are available by clicking the toggle buttons below the charts with new cases per day and new deaths per day.

Finally we have also published an overview list with countries, official government sites and COVID-19 report release times. This is very useful information for researchers or journalists who want to find more COVID-19 info on certain countries, or want to be the first to report.

example: 100 day chart of new cases in India