[DATA] dsfsi covid data NICD scraper broken

[vukosim]

@krokkie We are having a scraper issue again. Got this from Hugh Murrell

NICD web-scraper is broken.

A few days ago, The NICD changed the presentation format on its
COVID dashboard and as a result faulty data is getting scraped for
your South African provincial Covid count dataset on github.

Quite a few web apps make use of your dataset. Please can you
ask someone to take a look at the problem

The break occurs between 22-11-2021 and 23-11-2021 in this dataset

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/dsfsi/covid19za/master/data/covid19za_provincial_cumulative_timeline_confirmed.csv

and that is when the NICD format changed.

[vukosim]

@krokkie can we close this now?

[krokkie]

This underlying data was broken, the scrapers worked fine. As pointed out by others, an improvement would be to add the published "new cases" numbers. I wanted to add this when I had a gap.

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