covid19swiss {covid19swiss}

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)