posts: 34154

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                                "text": "This first chart shows\u00a0",
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                                        "text": "the number of confirmed cases\u00a0",
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                                "text": ". This is shown as the seven-day rolling average.",
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                                "text": "Two tips on how you can interact with this chart",
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                                        "text": " click on the Add country button to compare with any other country.",
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                                                "text": "View this data on a world map: ",
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                                        "text": "switch to a global map of confirmed deaths using the 'MAP' tab at the bottom of the chart.",
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                        "text": ": are we bending the curve?",
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                                "text": "To bring the pandemic to an end, ",
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                                        "text": "every country has to bring the curve of daily cases down to zero.",
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                                "text": "But in this chart, as in many of our charts, you can switch to a linear axis. Just click on \u2018Linear\u2019 in the top left corner.",
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                                "text": "The trajectory for every country begins on the day when that country had 100 confirmed cases. This allows you to make comparisons of how quickly the number of confirmed cases has grown in different countries.",
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                        "text": ": where are confirmed cases increasing or falling?",
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                        "text": "Since reporting can vary very significantly from day to day \u2013 irrespectively of any actual variation of cases \u2013 it is helpful to look at a longer time span, which is less affected by the daily variation in reporting. This provides a clearer picture of where the pandemic is accelerating, staying the same, or reducing.",
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                                "text": "The first map here provide figures on the number of confirmed cases in the last two weeks. To make comparisons across countries possible it is expressed per million people of the population. ",
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