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Missing new and cumulative cases for Czechia

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I'm using this data for some research, and noticed a big chunk of missing data for Czechia. It seems like both the new confirmed and cumulative cases remain at 0 until 2021-08-12, where it suddenly spikes to the correct values. See the table below for an illustration of the problem.

date location_key new_confirmed new_deceased new_recovered new_tested cumulative_confirmed cumulative_deceased cumulative_recovered cumulative_tested
2021-08-09 CZ 0 1 254 33911 0 30488 1638970 9336548
2021-08-10 CZ 0 0 188 34650 0 30488 1639158 9371198
2021-08-11 CZ 0 1 204 112354 0 30489 1639362 34850816
2021-08-12 CZ 188 0 170 168410 1662121 30489 1639532 35019226
2021-08-13 CZ 216 0 131 100069 1662337 30489 1639663 35119295
2021-08-14 CZ 141 0 89 67948 1662478 30489 1639752 35187243

As far as I can tell, the new and cumulative cases columns are the only ones that have this problem.

It appears to be an issue with the data source. It seems to be publishing constant zeroes for the country data. If it's not fixed soon, we can just remove this data source and use the numbers from the WHO.