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Daily new confirmed cases of COVID-19

The line is blue when the rate of positive tests in a country is low – this means a country performs many tests relative to the size of the outbreak.
Red indicates a high positive rate of tests. This suggests that the true number of infections may be far higher than the number of confirmed cases.

Days since confirmed cases first reached 30 per day0100200300400500600Dailyconfirmedcases(7-dayaverage)South KoreaSouth KoreaKazakhstanKazakhstanDemocratic Republic of CongoDemocratic Republic of CongoEl SalvadorEl SalvadorOmanOmanCape VerdeCape VerdeTogoTogoFijiFijiPositive rate<0.1% of tests0.1% - 1%1% - 2%2% - 3%3% - 5%5% - 10%10% - 20%more than 20%Jan25,2020Nov17,2021

Source: Johns Hopkins University CSSE COVID-19 Data – Last updated 18 November, 22:05 (London time), Official data collated by Our World in Data – Last updated 16 November 2021, 20:40 (London
time)

Note: Only countries for which testing data is available are included. Details about this data can be found at OurWorldInData.org/coronavirus-testing.

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Jan 25, 2020
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