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Government creates 'Open Data' page showing Covid-19 statistics

Details date back to 17 March

Government has added an 'Open Data' page to its Covid-19 website.

The page includes links to spreadsheets detailing a breakdown of tests, cases, and deaths, dating back to 17 March, two days prior to the first confirmed case of coronavirus on the Isle of Man.

The documents are available to view at covid19.gov.im/open-data/, anyone wishing to redistribute the information must first read the Open Government License.

Speaking at today's media briefing, Health and Social Care Minister David Ashford explained that the releasing of this data allows government to be more transparent, and allows people to use the data at will:

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