SARS-CoV-2 Cases communicated by Swiss Cantons and Principality of Liechtenstein (FL)

Our aim is to create a common official OGD dataset of SARS-CoV-2 cases of the Swiss Authorities.

The infection rates refer to the infection with SARS-CoV-2, whereas the disease caused by the virus is called Covid-19.

We are providing SARS-CoV-2 case numbers in machine-readable form (CSV) as OGD resources (Open Government Data), that have been published by official sources (Cantons and FL) online. Sources are specifed with the respective URL(s).

Case numbers include persons tested and treated in the respective Canton resp. Principality of Liechtenstein. Important: Since 09.03.2020, only persons who meet certain test criteria are tested (see e.g. with the Canton of Zurich "Testkriterien" at www.gd.zh.ch/coronavirus).

The data is updated regularly - if available daily. Times of collection and update of the data may vary.

We are seeking to cover all Cantons, and to update the data automatically (by scraping or pipeline). Join our challenge to contribute to this goal: https://db.schoolofdata.ch/project/73

There is a merged file of all Cantons and FL that is automatically updated for use in data analysis.

You can get started exploring the data with visualise.ipynb (run it in your browser).

We are available to advise and support interested authorities. You can reach us: https://twitter.com/OpenDataZH (follow us, we send you a private Direct Message, thanks!)

(Latest full roundtrip to check for updates: completed at 2020-03-25 18:20 - next full roundtrip starting at at 2020-03-25 20:00) | OGD resource | updated by | latest update | data historized | Official source(s) | |--------------|------------|---------------|-----------------|--------------------| |FL|manually|2020-03-25 20:00|yes|see 'source' OGD resource| |AG|scraping|2020-03-25 15:00|yes|see 'source' OGD resource
for list of all sources see here| |AI|manually|2020-03-24 17:00|yes|see 'source' OGD resource| |AR|scraping|2020-03-25 08:00|yes|see 'source' OGD resource| |BE|scraping|2020-03-25|yes|see 'source' OGD resource| |BL|scraping|2020-03-25 14:00|yes|see 'source' OGD resource| |BS|manually|2020-03-25 10:00|yes|see 'source' OGD resource| |FR|manually|2020-03-18 (partially)|no|see 'source' OGD resource| |GE|manually|2020-03-25 12:00|no|see 'source' OGD resource| |GL|manually|2020-03-25 13:30|no|see 'source' (data before 2020-03-22 not official) OGD resource| |GR|scraping|2020-03-25 |no|see 'source' (identical case no. for 2020-03-22; we're verifying) OGD resource| |JU|scraping|2020-03-24 17:00|no|see 'source' OGD resource| |LU|scraping|2020-03-25 11:00|no|see 'source' OGD resource| |NE|scraping|2020-03-25 14:00|no|see 'source' OGD resource| |NW|scraping|2020-03-25 15:30|no|see 'source' OGD resource| |OW|manually|2020-03-25|no|see 'source' OGD resource| |SG|scraping|2020-03-23|yes|see 'source' OGD resource| |SH|scraping|2020-03-25 08:00|no|see 'source' OGD resource| |SO|scraping|2020-03-25 00:00|yes|see 'source' (data before 2020-03-20 not official) OGD resource| |SZ|manually|2020-03-25|no|see 'source' (one record not official) OGD resource| |TG|scraping|2020-03-25|no|see 'source' OGD resource| |TI|manually|2020-03-25 08:00|yes|see 'source' OGD resource| |UR|scraping|2020-03-24 12:00|yes|see 'source' OGD resource| |VD|manually|2020-03-24|yes|see 'source' OGD resource| |VS|scraping|2020-03-25 15:00|yes|see 'source' OGD resource| |ZG|scraping|2020-03-25 08:00|no|see 'source' OGD resource| |ZH|manually|2020-03-25 09:30|yes|see 'source' OGD resource|

Data structure

The data of the Cantonal case numbers is structured in such a way, it can be easily expanded vertically (Confederation).

example-file

Metadata and explanations

Cases Canton ZH

Metadata (in German): https://opendata.swiss/en/dataset/covid_19-fallzahlen-kanton-zuerich

Cases all Cantons CH

Metadata (in English): https://opendata.swiss/de/dataset/covid_19-cases-per-canton-of-switzerland-and-principality-of-liechtenstein

Important: Data is being updated after the next official data publication incl. Cantonal level issued by the Federal Office of Public Health FOPH: https://www.bag.admin.ch/bag/en/home/krankheiten/ausbrueche-epidemien-pandemien/aktuelle-ausbrueche-epidemien/novel-cov/situation-schweiz-und-international.html#-1199962081

Quick beta Visualization: https://observablehq.com/@mmznrstat/covid19-cases-in-switzerland

Community Contributions

Visualization of Swiss and Cantonal Case Numbers over Time

• https://rsalzer.github.io/COVID_19_CH/
• https://rsalzer.github.io/COVID_19_KT_ZH/
  Robert Salzer on Twitter: https://twitter.com/rob_salzer

Operations Dashboard

• https://covid19.ddrobotec.com/ github-repo
  Zeno Davatz on Twitter: https://twitter.com/zdavatz

corona-data.ch

• https://www.corona-data.ch/ github-repo
  Daniel Probst on Twitter: https://twitter.com/skepteis?lang=de

• https://github.com/opendatabs/covid_19
  Open Government Data Basel-Stadt on Twitter: https://twitter.com/OpenDataBS

Many thanks for the great work!