wizenheimer
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the first set of numbers is from data compiles by the WHO.
the 2nd set of numbers is from a 'private' organization. Their self-description is:
"Worldometer is run by an international team of developers, researchers, and volunteers with the goal of making world statistics available in a thought-provoking and time relevant format to a wide audience around the world. It is published by a small and independent digital media company based in the United States. We have no political, governmental, or corporate affiliation."
I don't have any decent gauge to judge which source is more reliable. Looking at the WHO data for individual nations it looks like they are a few days behind in updating their numbers
a 1200 death discrepancy is huge though and I don't know what the explanation is. Maybe it's nothing more than the clocks each organization uses to set the 24 hour period are different and WHO got some Friday numbers added to the Saturday numbers. In any event, the website you cited has always had much lower death numbers on weekends, then a big uptick on Mondays.

