covid-testing-latest-data-source-details: 55

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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
55 LBY Libya - samples tested 2020-10-26 https://ncdc.org.ly/Ar Libya National Centre for Disease Control   186     3405 0.496 3884 0.565 0.266 3.764 Libya National Centre for Disease Control https://ncdc.org.ly/Ar/ The number of samples tested. The Libya National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) used to maintain an official dashboard that reported the cumulative number of samples tested to date. Since late September 2020, this dashboard no longer reports the number of tests, and we only collect the daily number of samples tested from the main page of the NCDC website. It is unclear whether the reported figures include pending test results. Note that the testing figures reported in the NCDC dashboard do not match the cumulative testing figures reported in the [WHO Libya COVID-19 situation reports](https://www.humanitarianresponse.info/operations/libya/search?search=COVID-19+Situation+) that are published periodically. For example, the [2 September 2020 situation report](https://www.humanitarianresponse.info/sites/www.humanitarianresponse.info/files/documents/files/libya_covid_update_14_final.pdf) claims that a total of 134,027 samples were tested as of 2 September 2020, whereas the time series we construct from the NCDC dashboard yields a cumulative total of 138,487 samples tested as of 2 September 2020. We are unsure of the reasons for this discrepancy. The earliest reported figure in the official NCDC dashboard was from 4 March 2020 (3 samples tested). It is unclear how many samples were tested before this date. Because of this lack of historical data, we do not include any cumulative total for the testing data for Libya.