Antigen tests are also not included in reported testing figures, according to weekly status reports such as on 25 Nov Source: Outbreak Response Management. Data is available from 17 March Between 10 and 26 May , the daily situation updates provide figures for both the number of samples tested and the number of persons tested.
Over this period the two figures differ from one another by exactly tests on each day, which is due to persons under mandatory quarantine undergoing multiple test 2, samples tested on 1, persons. In contrast, the cumulative number of samples tested through routine surveillance and contact tracing are exactly equal to the cumulative number of persons tested on each day in these respective categories. Nevertheless, we choose to include all of these figures within our constructed time series, since the variation in terminology does not appear to correspond to large breaks in the time series.
In addition, based on the fact that the number of samples tested differs only slightly from the number of persons tested over the 10 May to 26 May period, we have no reason to believe that the variation in terminology prior to 10 May has any serious ramifications for the interpretation of the time series as the cumulative number of samples tested.
From 10 May onwards, the daily situation updates consistently report the cumulative number of samples tested. Data is available from 3 March , when samples had been tested. Press releases prior to 9 June are available from the archived official website.
Pending and indeterminate tests are excluded from testing figures. Since 26 September , the number of antigen tests performed to date are also reported in the press releases, separately from the number of PCR tests. We combine these two figures to determine the total number of samples tested, because our source for the number of confirmed cases includes positive results from both PCR and antigen tests. Testing is paid by the individual being tested. Antigen tests are performed initially upon observation of symptoms, then negative results are verified with a PCR test, so figures include antigen and PCR tests.
Pending results are excluded. The time series goes back to February We calculate the cumulative number of tests performed each month in our series. The cumulative total begins from 1 January The positive rate is computed as the number of cases divided by the number of tests, for each reporting period shown in the original testing data.
No other information about the data is provided. We use these official data as collected by the visual and data journalism team of Budapest-based investigative center Atlatszo, made accessible in a public spreadsheet. We have cross-checked a sample of the figures in this unofficial spreadsheet against official figures. Detailed description: The Icelandic Office of Public Health publishes a complete time series of tests performed, broken down into testing scheme. No other information is provided.
It is not clear whether these figures include samples that are pending test results. The daily time-series data extends back to 27 February The number of confirmed cases does not match the number of domestic infections from the types of tests included in the testing figures. We therefore remove our estimate of the Positive Rate. Source: Indian Council of Medical Research.
No other details are provided. The press releases from ICMR do not always stay online for very long. The reason for this is unknown, but the releases are being backed up at this GitHub repository. On some occasions there appear to have been more than one update released per day. Where we are aware of multiple observations for the day, we show the number for the earlier release. From contextual information, it appears that the reported figures may also include samples that were tested using a TrueNat non-PCR test.
These TrueNat tests likely account for a small minority of all samples tested. Several press articles in late reported that rapid antigen testing accounted for a majority of tests being performed in the country to detect COVID Source: Emerging infections, Indonesian Ministry of Health.
The two dashboard URLs 1 , 2 seem to lead to the exact same dashboard. Of , cumulative people tested as of 11 August , 26, 2. These rapid molecular testing figures are included in the time series we construct. This suggests that the cumulative total will repeatedly count people that have undergone more than one round of testing over the course of the pandemic.
However, no further details were provided by the source. Detailed description: The Government of Iran provides daily press releases of the cumulative number of tests performed to date.
We have found testing data dating back to 5 April , at which point , tests had been conducted to date. It is not clear when the first test was conducted. Source: Iraq Ministry of Health and Environment. Detailed description: The Iraqi Ministry of Health and Environment publishes daily epidemiological reports on its official website and Twitter reporting the daily and cumulative number of samples tested, which we use to construct a daily time series.
Cumulative testing figures are available from 7 April , when the total was already 26, According to articles published on 22 Nov and 1 Dec , antigen tests are being conducted in Iraq. However, it is unclear if these tests are included in the testing figures, or if positive results are used to confirm cases of COVID Source: Government of Ireland.
Detailed description: The Government of Ireland released a data hub on 18 June that provides updates on the number of tests completed. The earliest observation is from 18 March , at which point 6, tests had been conducted to date.
This data will be updated on a daily basis from Monday to Saturday. As some cases are tested multiple times over the duration of the illness with positive results the total number of positive tests does not correspond to the confirmed COVID cases reported by the HPSC. Detailed description: The Israel Ministry of Health maintains a coronavirus dashboard with daily-updated data. Source 1: Ministero della Salute.
A conversation on the GitHub repository of the Department of Civil Protection leads us to strongly suspect that people undergoing multiple rounds of testing over the course of the pandemic are not repeatedly counted in these figures. This figure is available for each individual region separately at the source indicated. The list of missing data, in English, can be seen at the bottom of this data dashboard built by Franco Mossotto. For one region, Lombardy, an investigation found the latter delay in the early period of the outbreak to be around days.
The extent to which tests pending results are included appears to vary across regions. Pietro Monticone and Riccardo Valperga have written a very helpful and detailed description of these data quality issues here in GitHub.
Source 2: Ministero della Salute. Figures relate to the total number of tests performed. Source: Jamaica Ministry of Health and Wellness. Detailed description: The Jamaican Ministry of Health and Wellness publishes daily press releases on their official website reporting the daily and cumulative number of samples tested, which we use to construct a daily time series.
The press releases disaggregate the testing numbers into positive, negative, and pending tests, allowing us to exclude pending tests. It is unclear when testing first began; data is available from 24 March , when it was reported that samples had been tested. As such, testing figures include tests performed at all laboratories in the country. Source: Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare.
Source: Jordan Ministry of Health. Detailed description: The Jordanian Ministry of Health publishes daily updates reporting the number of tests performed each day, as well as the cumulative number of tests performed to date, which we use to construct a daily time series. It is unclear if pending tests, or antigen tests, are included in the testing figures. Daily testing figures are availabe from 16 April , but it is unclear when the first test was performed.
As such, we refer to the cumulative testing figures, which are available from 31 October For more information about how these details may impact the time series, refer to our FAQ on our COVID testing dataset. Detailed description: The Kazakhstan National Center for Public Health provides an official time series of the total number of tests performed to date.
The reported number of tests performed may include non-PCR tests. But the source does not explicitly state whether these non-PCR tests are included in the reported cumulative number of tests performed to date. The earliest reported figure is from 13 March , at which point tests had been conducted.
Detailed description: The Kenyan Ministry of Health maintains a dashboard of information on COVID, which we have used to construct a time series of the number of tests performed since April 6 We have found testing data dating back to 6 March , at which point 31 tests had been conducted to date.
According to a circular published by the office of the Director General for Health on Feb 12 , antigen tests can be used to confirm cases of COVID under certain circumstances, and these tests are included in the testing figures. However, the wording used in some tweets and press releases makes it unclear whether the figures relate to the number of samples tested or the number of people tested.
Instead, the wording of the tweets and press releases suggests that the reported number of samples tested may be equivalent to the number of people tested. The new source explicitly refers to the number of tests performed, which we use as the unit for the testing figures. Detailed description: The National Institute of Public Health of Kosovo maintains a dashboard reporting the number of tests performed. It is unclear if pending tests are included in testing figures. Data is available from 13 May , at which point , tests had been performed.
Source: Government of Laos. Detailed description: The Government of Laos maintains a dashboard reporting the number of people tested. Source: Center for Disease Prevention and Control. No information is given on the geographical scope and number of labs included.
Source: Lebanon Ministry of Health. Detailed description: The Lebanon Ministry of Health maintains a dashboard reporting the cumulative number of tests performed. However, the number of confirmed cases is equal to the sum of positive PCR and antigen tests, meaning that antigen tests can be used to confirm cases of COVID Excluding diagnostic tests from the testing figures misrepresents testing capacity, and so we remove our estimate of the Positive Rate.
Since late September , 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. For example, the 2 September situation report claims that a total of , samples were tested as of 2 September , whereas the time series we construct from the NCDC dashboard yields a cumulative total of , samples tested as of 2 September We are unsure of the reasons for this discrepancy.
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.
Source: Federal Office of Public Health. The daily number of positive tests does not equal the number number of laboratory-confirmed cases. Source: Government of Lithuania. Detailed description: The Lithuanian Ministry of Health publishes an open-access dataset reporting the daily number tests performed. Data is available from 19 March Testing figures include both PCR and antigen tests.
This dashboard displays the number of tests performed, as well as the number of individuals tested; there have more than twice as many tests performed as people tested. Source: Luxembourg Ministry of Health. Detailed description: The Luxembourg government provides a complete time series of the cumulative number of PCR tests performed since February The same source also provides a time series of the number of people tested, but it is unclear whether or not this cumulative figure repeatedly counts people that have gone through more than one round of testing over the course of the pandemic.
Since we derive a count of the daily number of people tested from the change in this cumulative number, if people undergoing multiple rounds of testing are not counted repeatedly in the cumulative, repeat testers would not appear in our daily testing figures. We therefore do not collect this data on the number of people tested.
Source: Madagascar Ministry of Public Health. These updates date back to March but did not begin including testing numbers until 28 April ; the cumulative total then was Thus it is not clear when testing began. No other testing information has been found, such as whether the reported numbers include pending tests or whether all laboratories are included in the totals. Source: Public Health Institute of Malawi. Detailed description: We construct a daily time series of the cumulative number of samples tested to date using daily situation reports published by the Public Health Institute of Malawi.
The time series begins on 29 March , at which point a total of 18 samples had been tested. The testing figures exclude pending test results. Detailed description: The Malaysian Ministry of Health provides daily situation updates reporting the cumulative number of people tested, which we use to construct a daily time series.
Pending tests are excluded from the testing figures. Data is available from 14 February , at which point people had been tested. On 16 July , the Ministry of Health released a press statement. This is because there are individuals who require repeated tests. It is unclear if the cumulative number of people tested repeatedly counts people who have gone through more than one round of testing over the course of the pandemic.
Since we derive a count of the daily number of people tested from the change in this cumulative number, if people undergoing multiple rounds of testing are not counted repeatedly in the cumulative testing figures, then they will not appear in our daily testing figures. Source: Maldives Health Protection Agency. The cumulative total is available from 26 June to 27 Sept The daily total is available from 28 Sept until 23 Nov ; we determined the cumulative total by summing the daily totals.
Both the cumulative and daily totals are available since 24 Nov ; we still determine the cumulative total by summing the daily totals. The positive, negative, and total numbers are cumulative, while the pending numbers are current as of that day. Before 16 June , when negative numbers were reported, we used the total of positive and negative numbers rather than the reported total, since the latter generally included pending values and occasionally contained discrepant numbers that did not match any combination of the positive, negative, or pending numbers.
Data is available from 16 March , when samples had been tested. Antigen tests are available but not recommended, and all results should be reported to HPA. It is therefore unclear if antigen tests are included in the number of samples tested; the case definition must match the test definition in order for the Positive Rate to be accurate, and so we exclude our estimate from the dataset.
Source: Maltese Ministry of Health. Detailed description: The Maltese Ministry of Health publishes daily COVID updates on its official Facebook page reporting the cumulative number of tests performed, which has been our source since 20 January Data is available since 6 February This notice was accompanied by this document , which states that under certain circumstances, positive results from antigen tests can be used to confirm cases of COVID Source: Mauritania Ministry of Health.
Detailed description: The Mauritania Ministry of Health publishes daily situation reports that state the cumulative number of tests performed to date, as well as the number of tests performed in the past 24 hours. According to a post by the Ministry of Information, antigen tests cannot be used to confirm cases of COVID, but are used for screening purposes.
The non-diagnostic tests presumably refer to antigen and antibody screening tests. However, it is unclear if these screening tests are included in the cumulative number of tests performed to date.
The case definition therefore may not match the test definition, and so we remove our estimate of the Positive Rate. Source: Government of Mexico. The files can be downloaded in CSV format. For each file, we only keep the row that reports national data, merge the two files together, and add up confirmed and negative cases to find the number of people tested each day.
We then calculate the positive rate as the 7-day sum of positive tests divided by the 7-day sum of people tested. They also established that antigen tests are now included in testing figures.
A press release on Nov 5th confirmed that antibody tests are neither used for case confirmation nor included in testing and case figures.
Two pieces of evidence suggest that people undergoing multiple rounds of testing over the course of the pandemic may be counted each round: 1 Figures refer to the number of cases tested, and each case has a unique ID; and 2 The source provides the number of cases with samples tested in the past 24 hours, which matches the daily change in the cumulative number of cases tested.
Data starts on 1 January ; we do not know if this is because tests started on that date or because earlier data is not available. Detailed description: The Moldovan Ministry of Health, Labour and Social protection maintains a website reporting the total number of tests performed.
According to a government order , posted on 3 March , antigen tests can be used to confirm cases of COVID under certain circumstances, and these tests must be reported to the Ministry. Our current time series starts on 11 November , which is the date of the first locally transmitted case in the country.
Source: Morocco Ministry of Health. There are usually two updates per day, of which we use the latter. Data is available from 7 February , at which point 9 cases had been tested. As such, both PCR and antigen tests are presumably included in the testing figures. The source provides the daily number of cases confirmed and discarded. However, no further details are provided by the source. From 2 March to 18 May we used data stored in this unofficial GitHub repository instead of the official source to automate data collection.
We have cross-checked a sample of the figures reported in the unofficial source against official data reported by the Ministry of Health to ensure accuracy. Source: Mozambique Ministry of Health. Detailed description: The Mozambique Ministry of Health publishes daily reports on the number of cases registered, the total number of negative tests, and total tests conducted.
It is unclear as to whether figures refer to the number of people or samples tested. Antigen tests have been used to confirm cases of COVID under specific conditions, according to a report published by the Ministry of Health. The report states that all antigen tests and positive results must be reported to the Ministry of Health. The number of positive cases registered and the total number of negative tests is equal to the number of total tests conducted for the majority of the daily reports released.
For dates where this is not the case, we favour the sum of positive cases registered and the number of negative tests. From 3 October , the MOH no longer reports the number of negative tests. Instead, it reports the number of tests in the last 24 hours and the cumulative number of tests. There are reports published prior to the 28 March the earliest we could find is dated 18 March that include the number of positive and negative tests conducted by the National Institute of Health or in private laboratories.
However, the cumulative totals for 26 and 27 March are inconsistent with the cumulative total reported for the 28 March onwards. Therefore, to avoid potential inconsistenies with the series from 28 March , we do not include these testing figures. Source: Myanmar Ministry of Health and Sports. Detailed description: The Myanmar Ministry of Health and Sports maintains a dashboard reporting the total number of samples tested to date, as well as historical daily situation reports , which we use to construct a daily time series.
Data is available from 4 April This document states on page 13 that positive results from antigen tests can be used to confirm cases of COVID, whereas negative results must be confirmed with a PCR test.
These reports date back to late March but did not begin including testing numbers until 1 April , when the cumulative total was samples tested.
Previously, the only tests in use were PCR, according to a report from 9 July The tests are performed at both public and private laboratories, and it appears that all laboratories are included in the reported totals. The wording in the reports often suggests that pending tests are not included, but we have seen no definitive confirmation of this. Source: Ministry of Health and Population.
Since our source for this data is a non-official repository of official data, we regularly audit the accuracy of this repository against direct official channels. The testing figures of up to 85 labs within the country are reported in the dataset.
Data is available from 28 Janurary Antigen tests have been used at ports of entry since 19 March , and these testing figures have been reported since 12 April However, the number of cases corresponds to the number of positive PCR tests, as so we exclude antigen tests from our testing figures. Before 11 May , the reports differentiated between positive, negative, and pending tests, allowing removal of pending tests from the total.
Since 11 May the number of pending tests is no longer reported and thus it is unclear if they are included in the reported total. Our positive rate reflects the official positive rate recorded in Table 17 of the weekly epidemiological reports. There appear to be reporting lags in the weekly reports, such that the reported figures for any given week increase over the following weeks; figures are retrospectively revised once a week with the latest figures as labs report additional results.
It is unclear if pending tests are included in the testing figures. The testing figures of up to 54 labs within the country are reported in the dataset. Data are available from the week ending 15 March PCR and antigen tests are both included in testing figures. Source: New Zealand Ministry of Health. Detailed description: The New Zealand Ministry of Health provides the cumulative total number of tests performed in the country since 22 January Source: Nigeria Centre for Disease Control.
The time series goes back to 30 March The datasets currently lack descriptions and so many of the details are unclear; we will add further detail as it becomes available.
Source: Norwegian Institute of Public Health. Since the source provides figures for the number of people tested per day, we take this to mean that people that have undergone more than one round of testing in different days over the course of the outbreak will be counted repeatedly.
Our cumulative figures for testing are calculated by summing the daily figures together. As such they will include duplicates for people undergoing multiple rounds of testing. Detailed description: The Oman Ministry of Health provides daily statements on their official Twitter account OmanVSCovid19 , reporting the daily and cumulative number of tests. It is unclear whether the number of tests refers to samples or individuals tested. It is also unclear if pending tests are included in testing figures.
There is no reason to doubt that the tests are PCR only. Data is available from 4 June Since 7 August , the statements no longer include testing figures. Detailed description: The government of Pakistan publishes a dashboard showing up-to-date national data. The figures sometimes shows important 1-day increases due to the inclusion of more labs. Source: Palestinian Ministry of Health.
Detailed description: The Palestinian Ministry of Health publishes daily epidemiological reports on its official Facebook page reporting the number of tests performed each day, which we use to contstruct a daily time series. It is unclear if pending results are included in the testing figures. Daily testing figures are available from 28 August The first test was performed on 6 Feb Historical data are not available, however, so we do not use this source.
On 1 Oct , the Palestinian Ministry of Health posted a Facebook status reporting that it had acquired antigen tests. Pending tests are not included. The number of tests performed includes antigen and PCR tests, according to biweekly status reports published by the Pan American Health Organization. Note that the number of positive tests is marginally greater than the number of confirmed cases, presumably due to the use of multiple tests to confirm one case; we record the latter figure, because the former is only reported once every other week.
Source: Department of Health. Detailed description: The Department of Health publishes weekly situation reports reporting the number of tests performed. Data is available from 7 March Until 31 Jan , our source was this official dashboard , maintained by the Ministry of Health; we switched to the current source because the old source began to report weekly instead of daily testing figures.
Detailed description: The Peruvian National Institute of Health publishes monthly time series of molecular PCR tests on its open data platform, which we aggregate to obtain a complete historical time series of PCR tests performed in the country. Only [positive or negative] verified results are included; it does not include tests that were rejected or awaiting results.
Each entry in the database corresponds to a molecular test, not to a person. Additionally, the age and sex of the person who was tested are included. The source provides a breakdown by laboratory. Data for recent days may be incomplete due to delays in reporting. Source 1: Poland Ministry of Health. Data is available from 28 April It is also unclear if pending results are included in the testing figures. On 31 October , the Ministry of Health changed the case definition to include detection with rapid antigen tests.
However, we have not been able to establish whether or not rapid antigen tests are now also included in the testing figures; if not, then the true positive rate will be lower than that indicated in our figures. Source 2: Poland Ministry of Health. Source: Portugal Ministry of Health dashboard. Detailed description: The dashboard provides figures for the number of samples processed, both as daily figures and as cumulative figure since 1 March Up until 29 April we had reported a figure of the number of people tested, obtained as the sum of confirmed and unconfirmed cases in the Portugal Ministry of Health MOH daily updates.
We were alerted by a Technical Advisor within the Cabinet of the Secretary of Health to the fact that these figures only captures people who were reported through the National System of Epidemiological Surveillance which does not include many of the people that get tested but are never entered into the surveillance system because they do not meet the criteria and go on to test negatively. For this reason we have now switched to the current series. The advisor confirmed to us that this series: includes all the public, private and university labs performing SARS-CoV-2 diagnosis in Portugal; does not include tests pending results.
Since positive results from these antigen tests are notified and counted in daily national figures for confirmed cases, we include them in the number of tests performed in the country. Some laboratories are performing PCR confirmatory tests on both negative and positive antigen tests.
Source: Qatar Open Data Portal. Detailed description: The Qatar Open Data Portal publishes a daily time series of the cumulative number of tests performed to date. The earliest reported figure that we have been able to find is from 12 March , at which point 5, tests had been performed to date. The testing figures reported by the Open Data Portal match the cumulative number of people tested to date reported by the Qatar Ministry of Public Health.
But the Ministry of Public Health only provides a snapshot of the cumulative number of people tested as of today, so we use the data provided by the Open Data Portal to construct a daily time series of the cumulative number of people tested each day since 12 March It is not clear whether the reported figures include people for which test results are pending. Detailed description: We construct a time series from daily press releases on the Romanian Government website which includes a cumulative figure of the number of tests processed to date e.
Where unavailable at this main source, some earlier observations were sourced from the press office of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Source: Government of the Russian Federation. We do not include cumulative totals reported on 30 March and 31 March , as they seemed inconsistent with numbers given on 29 March and 1 April Detailed description: The Rwanda Ministry of Health RwandaHealth tweets press releases in English, French, and Kinyarwanda that report the number of samples tested each day.
The earliest press release we have found containing testing figures is from 7 April Between 7 April and 1 May inclusive , the press releases reported the number of samples tested today, but not the cumulative number of samples tested to date. Since 2 May , the press releases have reported the cumulative number of samples tested to date as well as the number of samples tested today.
We construct a daily time series since 6 April of the cumulative number of samples tested to date by subtracting daily tests between 7 April and 2 May from the 2 May cumulative total.
As of 6 April , 5, samples had been tested to date. It is unclear when the first samples were tested. Since 26 October , we collect this data automatically based on an ArcGIS dashboard that provides a daily snapshot of cumulative tests.
Detailed description: The Ministry of Health maintains a table reporting the number of people tested. Detailed description: 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. Nevertheless, corresponding press releases from the Ministry of Health imply that the figures refer to the total number of tests performed. The figures are cumulative since 2 March tests performed. Source: Ministry for Health and Social Action. The dashboard provides daily testing figures since 1 April , which we supplement with daily press releases dating back to 28 February We have cross-checked a sample of the dashboard figures against the press release figures to ensure consistency.
Detailed description: Reports are published daily by the Serbian Ministry of Health. The data is collected and aggregated by volunteers and published on GitHub. All labs in Serbia are included. Louis years 1 St. Testing data table. More about testing data. Testing numbers show how many total tests have been done for people who live in Minnesota.
Some people get tested more than once. Testing data is reported per test to account for changes in testing capacity and for individuals who are tested more than once over the course of the pandemic. Tests are reported by date reported to MDH. Positive cases by date specimen collected data table. Reinfections by date specimen collected data table. More about positive cases, positive people, and reinfections. A person is counted as having a reinfection if they test positive confirmed or probable for COVID more than 90 days after a previous lab-confirmed case.
Case data is represented by the date of specimen collection. The total cumulative number of people who have tested positive is presented as "Total positive people". The total number of reinfections is counted in "Total number of reinfections cumulative " A person with a positive PCR test result following a positive antigen test result would move from being a probable case to a confirmed case. A person with a negative PCR test result following a positive antigen test result would still be considered a probable case.
Priority groups include people under 18 years old, hospitalizations, deaths, and people with vaccine breakthrough or variants. Therefore, not all cases were contacted for interview. More about cases no longer needing isolation. Cases no longer needing isolation represents individuals with confirmed or probable COVID who no longer need to self-isolate.
MDH does not track cases over time to determine whether they have fully recovered. Cases no longer needing isolation does not include those who have died. Deaths data table.
More about deaths. These places will still be able to achieve herd immunity through mass vaccination when a vaccine becomes available.
Simply put, there are two ways to lower the percent positive: Reduce the amount of coronavirus transmission or increase the number of people who get tested. Fortunately, these two things often go hand-in-hand. If a place is doing more testing—and responding appropriately to positive tests, by making sure that people who might be contagious are isolated, for example—the amount of transmission should go down over time. But even without testing, measures such as stricter regulations regarding wearing masks, physical distancing, and avoiding large gatherings are all effective ways to reduce transmission.
As a result, these people can spread the coronavirus and cause disease in their communities. People who test positive for the coronavirus and those exposed to them should isolate themselves for two weeks, and contact tracing should be done to prevent the infection from spreading.
By the time severe cases begin to surge in hospitals, outbreaks are larger and much harder to control. These outbreaks can be detected earlier—and their severity lessened—by testing more people. But for testing to work, people need to get test results quickly. When people have to wait many days to get their results back, they may be less likely to keep themselves isolated. By the time a positive test result comes back, therefore, someone who has been waiting many days may have infected more people.
While tracking the number of positive tests is useful, what matters more is the total number of people who are infected—and we can only know this number by testing more people. As more people are tested, the percent positive will go down. You should also consider getting tested if you have any symptoms, or if you have not been distancing and are likely to be in contact with people who are at risk of getting very sick if they develop COVID All this means is that coronavirus transmission, relative to testing, is low in your setting at the moment.
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