covid-testing-latest-data-source-details: 29

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rowid ISO code Entity Date Source URL Source label Notes Number of observations Cumulative total Cumulative total per thousand Daily change in cumulative total Daily change in cumulative total per thousand 7-day smoothed daily change 7-day smoothed daily change per thousand Short-term positive rate Short-term tests per case General source label General source URL Short description Detailed description
29 FRA France - people tested 2020-10-23 https://www.data.gouv.fr/fr/datasets/donnees-relatives-aux-resultats-des-tests-virologiques-covid-19/ National Public Health Agency   164     269663 4.131 199433 3.055 0.136 7.372000000000001 National Public Health Agency https://www.data.gouv.fr/fr/datasets/donnees-relatives-aux-resultats-des-tests-virologiques-covid-19/ The number of people tested. Since 13 May 2020, the National Public Health Agency has replaced its previous weekly updates of the number of tests performed with a daily-updated file with the count of people tested, available on the French government's open data portal. The source specifies that if several samples are reported for the same patient: - The first date is selected for PCR tests with the same result (for example several negative tests); - The first positive PCR test date is kept in case of discordant PCR tests. This means that many people undergoing multiple rounds of testing are not counted repeatedly in this data. We therefore present the more accurate "tests performed" series as the main time series for France. The data covers all results of test laboratories (RT-PCR) carried out by all city laboratories and hospitals concerning SARS-COV2. The source notes that "the time to report back tests can exceed 9 days in some cases. The indicators are adjusted daily according to the reception of the results." This data does not allow us to publish any cumulative total, since no information is available on how many people had been tested prior to the first day of reporting. Note that the positive rate published by the National Public Health Agency is calculated using a different method from our own estimate: it divides the number of positive cases by the number of people tested. Due to the issue of people undergoing multiple rounds of testing not being counted repeatedly in this number of people tested, we divide instead the number of positive cases by the number of tests performed. For this reason, the positive rate shown in our data will by definition be lower than the official estimate, but its trend over time will be the same.