What the response contains
Fields worth checking
- Science & Nature
- disease.sh results
- public source
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Read the snapshot together with the source time
The /v3/covid-19/countries/{country} route can return updated, cases, deaths, recovered, active, critical, tests, population, and per-million indicators. updated is a millisecond timestamp; show its conversion and the queried country whenever displaying numbers. cases and deaths are cumulative counts, while fields beginning with today describe the update attributed to the day by the source itself.
- Do not compare country totals without considering population or per-million indicators.
- Keep the updated time with every collection or chart.
- Treat null, zero, and absent fields as different response states.
A zero daily field does not describe individual risk
todayCases, todayDeaths, and todayRecovered are values from the returned update, not a clinical assessment of exposure or transmission in a city. In a current Brazil response, some daily fields were zero beside cumulative totals. Show the date and source, and use local health authorities whenever a decision concerns symptoms, testing, vaccination, or care.
- Do not turn a counter into a behavioural recommendation.
- Avoid calculating trends from a single snapshot.
- Identify country, period, and endpoint clearly in every visualisation.
A historical series needs aligned dates
/v3/covid-19/historical/{country}?lastdays={n} returns a timeline with separate cases, deaths, and recovered objects. Its keys are dates supplied by the source; a response can reflect available coverage rather than the calendar at query time. Before calculating change, align the same date in every series and check for values that were not updated.
- Do not subtract points from different dates to create a daily number.
- Keep country and province with the timeline.
- Use an official local source for individual health decisions.