The 2019 Novel Coronavirus COVID-19 (2019-nCoV) Switzerland Outbreak Dataset

Source: R/data.R

daily summary of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic cases in Switzerland by Canton

covid19swiss

Format

A data.frame object

Source

Specialist Unit for Open Government Data Canton of Zurich website

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

Examples


data(covid19swiss)

head(covid19swiss)
#>         date location         location_type location_code location_code_type
#> 1 2020-01-24       GE Canton of Switzerland         CH.GE         gn_a1_code
#> 2 2020-01-24       GE Canton of Switzerland         CH.GE         gn_a1_code
#> 3 2020-01-24       GE Canton of Switzerland         CH.GE         gn_a1_code
#> 4 2020-01-24       GE Canton of Switzerland         CH.GE         gn_a1_code
#> 5 2020-01-24       GE Canton of Switzerland         CH.GE         gn_a1_code
#> 6 2020-01-24       GE Canton of Switzerland         CH.GE         gn_a1_code
#>      data_type value
#> 1 tested_total     4
#> 2  cases_total    NA
#> 3     hosp_new    NA
#> 4 hosp_current    NA
#> 5  icu_current    NA
#> 6 vent_current    NA