{
  "_comment": "Per-country figures and their history. Written 6 Oct 2026. Kyle, 6 Oct: \"there is 1 case oct 2, 0 oct 4, and 0 oct 5, 0 oct 6. Same with cases and pending. We need the dates on that. ALSO no skipping dates. if there is no data, u put 0.\" So the series is DAILY NEW, not running totals, and every date from the first to today is present.",
  "meta": {
    "updated": "2026-10-06",
    "_READ_THIS_FIRST": "THE HISTORY IS DAILY NEW, NOT CUMULATIVE. A row's deaths/cases/pending are what was NEWLY reported on that date. \"deaths\": 0 means no new death was reported that day. It does NOT mean the death toll is zero. The headline figures in each country's `figures` block are the COLUMN SUMS of its history, which is why Russia reads deaths 1, 0, 0, 0, 0 with a headline of 1. Read a zero as cumulative and you will read this file as saying a death was undone, which is the opposite of what it says.",
    "note": "A per-country view of figures that already exist in data.json. It is not a second record and it is not a world count: a country appears here only once a named source has stated a figure for it. The history is daily new, not a running total, so each row counts what was newly reported on that date and each metric's rows sum to its headline figure. A zero means no new death, case or contact admission was reported on that date, which is a statement about the record rather than a figure taken from a source, so a zero carries no citation and needs none. Dates do not skip between the first and last recorded rows; the series may trail behind today, and that gap is not filled automatically. A non-zero is a figure somebody stated, so it still carries its source and the build still refuses it without one. Every source id below is a data.json publication string character for character, because data.json sources[] carry no id field and the scheduled updater rewrites that file twice a day, so renaming a publication there breaks the citations here and the build stops rather than dropping them.",
    "_sourceIds": "data.json records provenance as prose and its sources[] carry no id field, so a source id here IS the exact `publication` string from data.json sources[], character for character. That is the only value in data.json that identifies a source, and build.mjs already keys its citation index on it, so an id typed here resolves to the same numbered reference the sources page shows. If data.json ever gains real id fields, this file has to be remapped in the same commit.",
    "_noFutureDates": "The last row is 2026-10-06 because today is 2026-10-06. There is deliberately no 2026-10-07 row: a row for a date that has not happened asserts nothing was reported on a day nobody has lived through yet, and the build refuses any date after data.json's meta.updated. The no-gaps rule applies BETWEEN the first and last recorded dates, not up to today, so the series trailing behind today is allowed and is not a fault. A trailing gap honestly says the record has not been extended. An all-zero row appended by a job that found nothing is indistinguishable from one appended by a job whose searches failed, so nothing fills the trailing gap automatically."
  },
  "countries": [
    {
      "slug": "russia",
      "name": "Russia",
      "iso2": "RU",
      "status": "data",
      "_figures": "The three headline numbers, as strings, exactly as data.json counters hold them: deaths from the `deaths` counter, cases from `confirmed-cases`, pending from `contacts`. Each one must equal the SUM of its history row, which is what makes the chart and the headline the same claim. One caveat worth knowing: deaths and cases are events, so a daily-new series and a cumulative total agree by construction. `pending` is a standing count of people under observation, so its sum is cumulative admissions. The two coincide at 189 only because nobody has been recorded as released; see the 2026-10-06 note.",
      "figures": {
        "deaths": "1",
        "cases": "1",
        "pending": "189"
      },
      "_history": "Daily new, one row per calendar date from the first reported figure to today, with no gaps. A zero is not an absence of data, it is the record saying nothing new was reported that day, so it needs no source. A non-zero is somebody's stated figure and must name them. Sources are still listed on zero rows where a named source spoke that day, because that is provenance about the record even when no figure moved.",
      "history": [
        {
          "date": "2026-10-02",
          "deaths": 1,
          "cases": 1,
          "pending": 189,
          "sources": [
            "Meduza",
            "The Moscow Times"
          ],
          "note": "The death and the 189 contacts hospitalized both fall on this date. Meduza carried both. Kobzev, via The Moscow Times, said every contact tested negative, so no case is confirmed."
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-10-03",
          "deaths": 0,
          "cases": 0,
          "pending": 0,
          "sources": [],
          "note": "Nothing was reported on this date. The only Oct 3 event in the record, the Irkutsk Aluminum Plant mask rule, carries no figure."
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-10-04",
          "deaths": 0,
          "cases": 0,
          "pending": 0,
          "sources": [
            "Euronews",
            "Turkiye Today"
          ],
          "note": "Euronews and Turkiye Today restated the standing totals, 1 death and 189 of 197 contacts. Nothing new was reported, so every figure here is zero."
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-10-05",
          "deaths": 0,
          "cases": 0,
          "pending": 0,
          "sources": [
            "RFE/RL",
            "AP, via PBS NewsHour",
            "Newsweek",
            "Discover Magazine"
          ],
          "note": "WHO, via Newsweek, said no cause of death has been officially confirmed. The standing figures were restated, none of them moved."
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-10-06",
          "deaths": 0,
          "cases": 0,
          "pending": 0,
          "sources": [
            "Oblastnaya Gazeta (ogirk.ru)",
            "Lenta.ru",
            "Interfax",
            "Dr. Celine Gounder"
          ],
          "note": "Rospotrebnadzor said medical observation had ended for 60% of contacts. A percentage is not a count, so no figure is recorded. This series counts new admissions, so a release is not representable in it at all."
        }
      ],
      "_locations": "The three places data.json's locations[] puts in this country, by name, so the country page can list them without owning a second copy of their coordinates or notes.",
      "locations": [
        "Irkutsk",
        "Shelekhov",
        "Ulan-Ude"
      ],
      "_sources": "Ids only, in data.json array order so the numbered references stay ascending. The subset of data.json sources[] that carry a statement about this country or this event. The WHO plague fact sheet and both CDC pages are left out: they describe the disease in general and say nothing about Russia. WHO's global trends update is in because it makes one Russia-specific statement, that Russia is not among the countries reporting plague cases from 2019 to 2025.",
      "sources": [
        "Meduza",
        "The Moscow Times",
        "Euronews",
        "Turkiye Today",
        "RFE/RL",
        "AP, via PBS NewsHour",
        "ABC News (AP wire)",
        "CBS News",
        "Al Jazeera",
        "Newsweek",
        "TIME",
        "Discover Magazine",
        "Dr. Celine Gounder",
        "WHO, global trends in cholera, meningitis and plague",
        "Interfax",
        "Oblastnaya Gazeta (ogirk.ru)",
        "Lenta.ru",
        "IRCITY",
        "Kazinform (Qazinform)"
      ]
    }
  ]
}