Covid BlockPy Library

From the CORGIS Dataset Project

By Dennis Kafura, Melanie Sutphin, Joung Min Choi and Bo Guan
Version 2.0.1, created 10/22/2021
Tags: Covid, Covid-19, pandemic, infection, world health

Overview

Since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic, the Epidemic INtelligence team of the European Center for Disease Control and Prevention (ECDC) has been collecting on daily basis the number of COVID-19 cases and deaths, based on reports from health authorities worldwide. This helps to monitor and interpret the dynamics of the COVID-19 pandemic not only in the European Union (EU), the European Economic Area (EEA), but also worldwide. Every day a team of epidemiologists screens up to 500 relevant sources to collect the latest figures. The data screening is followed by ECDC standard epidemic intelligence process for which every single data entry is validated and documented in an ECDC database.

https://data.europa.eu/euodp/en/data/dataset/covid-19-coronavirus-data

Key Descriptions

Key	List of...	Comment	Example Value
Date.Day	Integer	The day of the month for this report	31
Date.Month	Integer	The month of the year for this report	12
Date.Year	Integer	The year of this report	2019
Data.Cases	Integer	Number of new cases reported	0
Data.Deaths	Integer	Number of new deaths reported	0
Location.Country	String	Name of country for this report (e.g., "United_States_of_America")	"Afghanistan"
Location.Code	String	Three letter country code (e.g., :USA")	"AFG"
Data.Population	Integer	Population of the country in 2019	38041757
Location.Continent	String	Continent of country (e.g., "Asia", "Europe", "America")	"Asia"
Data.Rate	Float	Cumulative number of cases reported for 14 days per 100000 people	0.0