china_case_data: Daily confirmed cases of COVID-19 in China

Description Usage Format Source

Description

The case data has daily confirmed confirmed cases for different provinces in China from 16 January to 24 March 2020 from the dashboard maintained by Chinese Center for Disease Prevention and Control (CCDC). The CCDC dashboard collates numbers of confirmed cases reported by national and local health commissions in each province in mainland China, and Hong Kong SAR and Macau SAR. Confirmed cases are defined as suspected cases, who have epidemiological links and/or clinical symptoms, and are detected with SARS-CoV-2 by PCR tests. However, in Hubei province, clinically diagnosed cases were additionally included between 12 and 19 February.

Usage

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Format

A data frame with 483 rows and 3 variables:

date

date, in YYYY-MM-DD format

province

name of province/region in China where cases occured

cases

number of daily cases reported of COVID-19

Source

http://2019ncov.chinacdc.cn/2019-nCoV/


mrc-ide/pika documentation built on May 18, 2020, 8:55 p.m.