In recent months we have made a lot of changes to improve data reliability on Newsnodes. One of those major improvements is the introduction of a Newsnodes-bot which is able to automatically locate, verify and validate COVID-19 data from official government websites.

To also give more information about our data, we have now launched page where registered users can see the differences between Newsnodes data and WHO data. In general, for most countries this data is 99% the same, with the difference being that Newsnodes is often 24 hours, and sometimes up to 48 hours faster in showing the data. More info can be found here.

Illustration of the data layers and how (conflicting) data is being displayed on our website

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