Run country-specific tests when relevant files are modified about covidregionaldata HOT 2 CLOSED

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Thanks Hugo,

I agree it is nice to have country-specific changes being tested against the downloaded data, so thanks for adding this. The tagging files touched aspect of github actions was new to me. I would rather you didn't unilaterally merge PRs without review, especially when there is no detail of the work done in the PR. If easier we can talk about this via slack etc.

The original motivation for this was not to reduce computation but to deal with potential issues with downloading data. Having countries on a timer is there to check if the upstream source has changed.

The issue with the changes you have merged is now if a dataset is broken due to downloading issues (i.e maybe it can't be accessed) then all changes to shared methods etc will be flagged as failing CI. I would rather this was not the case as in the past this essentially made the whole system break and become completely useless. This was the original motivation for testing against downloaded snapshots and one of the primary motivators for having a complex CI system to begin with. Very open to discussion on this of course.

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