covid-testing-latest-data-source-details: 35
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rowid
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ISO code
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Entity
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Date
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Source URL
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Source label
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Notes
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Number of observations
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Cumulative total
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Cumulative total per thousand
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Daily change in cumulative total
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Daily change in cumulative total per thousand
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7-day smoothed daily change
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7-day smoothed daily change per thousand
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Short-term positive rate
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Short-term tests per case
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General source label
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General source URL
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Short description
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Detailed description
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HKG |
Hong Kong - tests performed |
2020-10-20 |
http://www.chp.gov.hk/files/misc/statistics_on_covid_19_testing_cumulative.csv |
Department of Health |
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11 |
3707664 |
494.55400000000003 |
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8049 |
1.074 |
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Centre for Health Protection, Department of Health |
https://data.gov.hk/en-data/dataset/hk-dh-chpsebcddr-novel-infectious-agent |
The number of tests performed. |
The Hong Kong Centre for Health Protection, Department of Health provides monthly numbers of the COVID-19 viral tests performed. We calculate the cumulative number of tests performed each month in our series. The last update with provisional data is up until 14 April 2020, this information is updated once a week by the Centre for Health Protection.
Tests performed are conducted by the Public Health Laboratory Services Branch of the Department of Health and Hospital Authority.
The cumulative total begins from 1 January 2020.
Note that, due to the way the data is presented by the official source, the time series may be impacted by retrospective revisions made by the source – see our [FAQ here](https://ourworldindata.org/coronavirus-testing#does-your-data-reflect-retrospective-updates-made-by-the-source). |