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+#### A COVID-19 tracker using the corona.lmao.ninja API
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+This is a COVID-19 tracker for Linux, allowing you to track, review and save statistics for your country, others or worldwide.
+
+The data files are retrieved from corona.lmao.ninja which in turn receives its data from the Johns Hopkins University over at [GitHub](https://github.com/CSSEGISandData/COVID-19). Basically every application uses these, and I am also cross-verifying this. So far all the data appears consistent, although the stats from this program are more detailed than most others.
+
+I wrote this application mostly to get as much data as possible and present it in a clean manner. I hope you'll enjoy using it too.
+
+#### Dependencies
+
+This application depends on `jq` to parse the JSON output from corona.lmao.ninja. Most distributions provide this program from their repositories.
+
+#### Installation
+
+You can clone this repository to your computer using `git clone https://git.ghnou.su/ghnou/cv`. Afterwards you can run cv directly from it, without needing to install it. If you would like to install it, you can copy the program to `/usr/local/bin` or `~/.local/bin`.
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+#### Data Collection
+
+This program does not track any personal data or contact my servers to function. You can read the source code to confirm this.
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+The API responses from corona.lmao.ninja are saved to your local machine for subsequent data retrievals in `~/Documents/cv`. This could be used to review stats from earlier days, and I'd like to implement a time-series view using these in the future.