After releasing some pie charts on COVID-19 variants last week, today we have added a new page to our website: the COVID-19 Variant Monitor. On this page you will be able to get a impression of where the most known COVID-19 variants are currently circulating.

On every country page, we have also replaced the 'pie charts' with new 'area charts': these area charts show the prevalence of COVID variants over time. Please note: these charts will only appear on a country page, when a country has sequenced sufficient cases in recent weeks.

e.g. COVID-19 variant situation on July 1st, 2021

Today we have released the COVID-19 Live Data Hub. On this page you will be able to compare the COVID-19 data (cases and deaths) as currently reported by Newsnodes, World Health Organization and John Hopkins University (JHU). We hope our COVID-19 Live Data Hub will enable news agencies and reporters to verify whether the data they are using is actually reliable.

To further improve our COVID-19 data transparency, BNO News and Newsnodes have decided to make all COVID-19 data for US States (cases, deaths, tests, hospitalized and ICU) available to all of our website visitors.

example COVID-19 Data Hub view for Turkey

Three week ago, BNO News and Newsnodes launched the USA COVID-19 Monitor. As we have gathered a decent amount of data by now, we are now able to show the US charts based on our data. These charts (as shown below) can be found at our USA COVID-19 monitor page.

On top of that, we have also added the charts of COVID-19 patients hospitalized per state. Visit the individual US State page on Newsnodes.com to find these charts.

US charts based on data gathered by BNO News and Newsnodes.

Today we have added a new chart visualizer to the country pages on Newsnodes. This new chart visualizer has three main features:

1. Display charts in fullscreen size
2. Custom range charts, by entering a number of days the chart has to show
3. Option to cut outliers: sometimes 1 or 2 outliers can make all other data unreadable. By checking the 'cut outliers' box, the outliers will be cut off, making other data readable again!

example of new cases in Turkey with and without 'cut outliers'

Some exciting news today, as from now on, Newsnodes and BNO News will be working together to cover the coronavirus outbreak in the United States. For many months, the COVID Tracking Project was an excellent source for the latest figures per state, but the project stopped updating exactly 4 weeks ago.

To fill the void, BNO News and Newsnodes are now tracking all US states and territories on cases, deaths, testing and hospitalizations. You can find all data, maps and charts by visiting our USA COVID-19 monitor page.