Template talk:COVID-19 pandemic data/South Africa medical cases chart

WikiProject COVID-19
I've created WikiProject COVID-19 as a temporary or permanent WikiProject and invite editors to use this space for discussing ways to improve coverage of the ongoing 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic. Please bring your ideas to the project/talk page. Stay safe, -- Another Believer ( Talk ) 18:05, 15 March 2020 (UTC)

Whole graph view
How does one view the whole graph? &middot; &middot; &middot; Peter Southwood (talk): 08:01, 18 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Click on all the months. &middot; &middot; &middot; Peter Southwood (talk): 11:07, 22 September 2020 (UTC)

Percentage or absolute option for new infections?
I started a discussion on that topic here Project COVID-19, Medical cases charts - change type. My personal opinion is that absolute change display suits much better in an epidemic's second wave. But also the status quo ante should be kept until some agreement is reached (locally or possibly a consensus in linked discussion). -- Kohraa Mondel (talk) 15:36, 3 December 2020 (UTC)

Spike on November 23 2021.
The new cases for November 23, 2021 were originally reported as 18,586 and later corrected to 868.


 * https://twitter.com/jburnmurdoch/status/1463963512565387275?s=20
 * https://sacoronavirus.co.za/2021/11/23/update-on-covid-19-tuesday-23-november-2021/

However, the figure for total positive cases was not corrected. As of this writing, it is still shown at sacoronavirus.co.za as jumping from 2930174 on November 22 to 2948760 on November 23, reflecting the original erroneous jump by 18,586.

When collecting daily figures from sacoronavirus.co.za, this template only uses the daily figures for "Deaths", "Recoveries" and "Positive Cases". It ignores the "New Cases" figure reported there, instead inferring it as the difference in "Positive Cases" compared to the previous day.

That means there is currently no way to correct the erroneous figure of 18,586 unless the authoritative website adjusts its "Positive Cases" figures.

-- P.T. Aufrette (talk) 09:56, 26 November 2021 (UTC)


 * The spike is because retrospective antigen test stats were included on 2021-11-23: https://www.nicd.ac.za/latest-confirmed-cases-of-covid-19-in-south-africa-23-november-2021/ It's a statistics spike, not an actual daily spike, but we have to stick to the verifiable stats so the daily change will be weird. -- Jeandré, 2021-11-27t08:22z


 * I wonder if there is some way to alter the template to allow reporting the actual daily change if available and if it differs from the inferred change. -- P.T. Aufrette (talk) 09:02, 28 November 2021 (UTC)


 * It is possible to override the value displayed in the delta1 column. I'd vote against doing so unless this is routinely added: For some jurisdictions (example: New Mexico, USA), the published number of new cases is not simply the change in daily totals. These jurisdictions reduce the total to eliminate duplicates and false positives. Also, using the template's override feature won't automatically work with the new incidence rate feature of the template should that be used here in the future.
 * If the source data breaks down PCR from antigen totals, it is possible to record both values in the source code here (example: the cases chart for Texas, USA) by using a plus operator as in 1234+5678. This still displays a single total to the user, but both values are archived in the source. EphemeralErrata (talk) 22:08, 28 November 2021 (UTC)