covid19swiss {covid19swiss} | R Documentation |
The 2019 Novel Coronavirus COVID-19 (2019-nCoV) Switzerland Outbreak Dataset
Description
daily summary of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic cases in Switzerland by Canton
Usage
covid19swiss
Format
A data.frame object
Details
The dataset contains the daily summary of the Coronavirus pandemic cases in Switzerland and Principality of Liechtenstein. The data includes the following fields:
date - the timestamp of the case, a Date object
location - the Cantons of Switzerland and the Principality of Liechtenstein (FL) abbreviation code
location_type - description of the location, either Canton of Switzerland or the Principality of Liechtenstein
location_code - a canton index code for merging geometry data from the rnaturalearth package, available only for Switzerland cantons
location_code_type - the name of code in the rnaturalearth package for Switzerland map
data_type - the type of case
value - the number of cases corresponding to the date and data_type fields
Where the available data_type field includes the following cases:
total_tested - number of tests performed as of the date
total_confirmed - number of positive cases as of the date
new_hosp - new hospitalizations with respect to the previously reported date
current_hosp - number of hospitalized patients as of the current date
current_icu - number of hospitalized patients in ICUs as of the current date
current_vent - number of hospitalized patients requiring ventilation as of the current date
total_recovered - total number of patients recovered as of the current date
total_death - total number of death as of the current date
Source
Specialist Unit for Open Government Data Canton of Zurich website
Examples
data(covid19swiss)
head(covid19swiss)