covid-testing-latest-data-source-details: 89
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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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| 89 |
SAU |
Saudi Arabia - tests performed |
2020-10-26 |
https://covid19.moh.gov.sa/ |
Ministry of Health |
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239 |
7830553 |
224.926 |
57870 |
1.662 |
53294 |
1.531 |
0.006999999999999999 |
139.565 |
Ministry of Health |
https://covid19.moh.gov.sa/ |
The number of tests performed. |
The Saudi Arabian Ministry of Health maintains a dashboard that provides a snapshot of the total number of tests performed to date. The daily time series of tests performed each day is not displayed in the dashboard, but is available at this [API endpoint](https://services6.arcgis.com/bKYAIlQgwHslVRaK/arcgis/rest/services/DailyTestPerformance_ViewLayer/FeatureServer/0/query?f=json&where=ReportDate%3E%272020-01-01+00%3A00%3A00%27&returnGeometry=False&spatialRel=esriSpatialRelIntersects&outFields=ReportDate%2CCumulativeTest%2CDailyTest&orderByFields=ReportDate+asc&resultOffset=0&resultRecordCount=32000&resultType=standard).
The dashboard reports testing figures as "total tests", making it unclear whether the figures refer to the number of samples tested, tests performed, or people tested. Nevertheless, corresponding press releases from [the Ministry of Health](https://www.moh.gov.sa/en/Ministry/MediaCenter/News/Pages/default.aspx) imply that the figures refer to the total number of tests performed. For example, the [26 July 2020 press release](https://www.moh.gov.sa/en/Ministry/MediaCenter/News/Pages/News-2020-07-26-004.aspx) states that "...57,216 new Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) tests for Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) have been conducted in the Kingdom’s laboratories, bringing the total number to 3,056,956 lab tests".
The figures are cumulative since 2 March 2020 (160 tests performed).
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). |