Can someone explain the UK’s numbers for yesterday on worldometer?

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So according to worldometer, yesterday the UK had -525 new cases yesterday? I presume it’s some sort of statistical correction, but does anyone know for sure?

Yeah I’ve been wondering that too. I didn’t see a minus figure for cases last time I checked but it was completely blank.

I’ve been keeping an eye out but haven’t come across a reason yet.

If you go to the source on worldometers it’s saying 2k+ new cases for yesterday. No idea why they haven’t updated it on their site.

It would be interesting to know who owns and runs this website and how they update and validate their information. I know a few politicians have been quoting data from it and a few got into trouble quoting data that wasn’t valid for their own country.

You prompted me to poke about their website lemonTT

www.worldometers.info/about/ it seems to be a collective project a bit like Wikipedia but from government stats for comparisons sake.

Their front page is really interesting.

There’s an interesting article on CNN who have investigated the ownership and sources of information. Wikipedia don’t source them and consider it unreliable. A few academics are questioning comparisons and it’s hinting that governments could use this as a platform to put out unreliable information and data.

I don’t believe data on there is true. Russia and China produce data that is not believable. I believe the data from Western Europe and North America. But not many other places.

From Twitter yesterday

The over correction is in the small print

There are a couple of countries who have adjusted in this way. France I think Is one