ECDC Case data no longer useful after switching to weekly data

[KlausGPaul]

Subject of the issue

https://www.ecdc.europa.eu/en/publications-data/download-todays-data-geographic-distribution-covid-19-cases-worldwide

From the website

ECDC switched to a weekly reporting schedule for the COVID-19 situation worldwide and in the EU/EEA and the UK on 17 December this year. Hence, all daily updates have been discontinued from 14 December. ECDC will publish updates on the number of cases and deaths reported worldwide and aggregated by week every Thursday. The weekly data will be available as downloadable files in the following formats: XLSX, CSV, JSON and XML. As an exception, the weekly updates for the end-of-year festive season will be published on 23 December and 30 December 2020.

Workstream

Workstream 1, cookicutter labelling

Your environment

• N/A, backend

Steps to reproduce

jupyter notebook Download Case Data will fail as also the column names have changed.

Expected behaviour

European authorities to continue reporting daily numbers, maybe at a reduced frequency.

Actual behaviour

ECDC decided something else.