The source code outlining how this product gathers, transforms, revises and publishes its datasets is available at https://github.com/rearc-data/covid-19-worldwide-ecdc .

Product Description

This product includes the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control's (ECDC) dataset on the daily geographic distribution of COVID-19 cases worldwide.

ECDC is an EU agency aimed at strengthening Europe's defences against infectious diseases. The core functions cover a wide spectrum of activities: surveillance, epidemic intelligence, response, scientific advice, microbiology, preparedness, public health training, international relations, health communication, and the scientific journal Eurosurveillance.

ECDC disease programmes cover antimicrobial resistance and healthcare-associated infections; emerging and vector-borne diseases; food- and waterborne diseases and zoonoses; HIV, sexually transmitted infections and viral hepatitis; influenza and other respiratory viruses; tuberculosis; and vaccine-preventable diseases.

European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control | About ECDC 

Data Source

The dataset included with this product is provided in CSV, JSON, XLSX and XML. The following columns are used in the dataset:

dateRep, day, month, year, cases, deaths, countriesAndTerritories, geoId, countryterritoryCode, popData2018, continentExp

More Information

• Source: ECDC | Download today’s data on the geographic distribution of COVID-19 cases worldwide 
• European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control | Homepage 
• Licence | ECDC Copyright and Limited Reproduction Notices 
• Frequency: Daily
• Format: CSV, JSON, XLSX, XML

Contact Details

• If you find any issues or have enhancements with this product, open up a GitHub issue  and we will gladly take a look at it. Better yet, submit a pull request. Any contributions you make are greatly appreciated ❤️.
• If you are interested in any other open datasets, please create a request on our project board here .
• If you have questions about this source data, please contact ECDC at info@ecdc.europa.eu.
• If you have any other questions or feedback, send us an email at data@rearc.io.

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