Since March 25th, the French Ministry of Health no longer provides the total number of cases for each region. However, they do provide these four data points:
The last three (hospitalizations + deaths + recoveries) don't add up to the total for the first (the total for the country).
<aside> ✔️ Total cases for France: 52,128
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<aside> 🏥 Total hospitalizations (all regions combined): 22,672
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<aside> 💀 Total deaths (all regions combined): 3,523
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<aside> 💊 Total recoveries (all regions combined): 9,443
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<aside> 🚨 Unaccounted cases: 16,490
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Well, to the best of our knowledge, the Ministry of Health hasn't provided an explanation as to why that is. But our guess is that those are simply cases that were accounted for but not severe enough to require hospitalization.
France is the only country that provides a regional breakdown without the total number of cases in each region. In order to keep things consistent on coronavirus.app, we came to the conclusion that the best alternative was to extrapolate that number based on the other available data points. Here is how we calculate it:
<aside> 📝 Extrapolated Total cases for Region = ((total cases for France - (total hospitalizations for France + total deaths for France + total recoveries for France)) * (hospitalizations for Region / total hospitalizations for France)) + hospitalizations for Region + deaths for Region + recoveries for Region
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