Gerhard Bijker

This underlying data was broken, the scrapers worked fine. As pointed out by others, an improvement would be to add the published "new cases" numbers. I wanted to add this...

All I did some work on the hospitalization data too. Actually my son :-). Not in the data/nicd_hospital_surveillance_data.csv file yet, but in another file with a different format. See data/covid19za_provincial_raw_hospitalization.csv...

It appears as if there were some historic revisions to the data, artificially raising the number of positive cases by 18,000 from 23-Nov onwards. The number here: https://sacoronavirus.co.za/2021/11/23/update-on-covid-19-tuesday-23-november-2021/ reports 2.948m...