# Worldometer counts up sharply

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worldometer-counts-up-sharply/964541>\
**Category:** The Quarantine Zone\
**Tags:** covid-quarantine\
**Created:** [May 17, 2022, 10:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worldometer-counts-up-sharply/964541 "2022-05-17T10:54:58Z")\
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**Author:** ![Mark\_Finn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/34f0e0/32.png) [@Mark\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mark_Finn)\
**Post date:** [May 17, 2022, 10:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worldometer-counts-up-sharply/964541/1 "2022-05-17T10:54:58Z")

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I noticed that Monday’s Worldometer counts of the daily new cases was up quite sharply. It turns out that almost 400,000 new cases from North Korea were added to the totals.

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**Author:** ![Dr\_Paprika](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr_paprika/32/3042_2.png) [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\
**Post date:** [May 19, 2022, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worldometer-counts-up-sharply/964541/2 "2022-05-19T00:07:36Z")

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Some reputable sources figure official numbers should be three times reported ones, based on expected values. It is doubtful this difference can be made up even if some countries report now, if they couldn’t test or did not want to.