Changelog

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COVID19 2.3.0 (2020-10-30) 2020-08-28

Data Update

• Austria data. Added support for level 2 and 3 from the Federal Ministry of Social Affairs, Health, Care and Consumer Protection

COVID19 2.3.0 (2020-10-28) 2020-08-28

Data Update

• Policy measures. Added support for level 2 policies by Oxford Covid-19 Government Response Tracker. Enhanced policy inheritance by using OxCGRT flags to distinguish policies that are “targeted” to a specific geographical region (flag=0) or “general” policies that are applied across the whole country (flag=1). Only “general” policies are propagated to levels 2 and 3.

COVID19 2.3.0 (2020-10-27) 2020-08-28

Data Update

• Netherlands data all levels. Change data provider from JHU CSSE to National Institute for Public Health and the Environment of Netherlands. Affected variables: confirmed, deaths, hosp.

COVID19 2.3.0 (2020-10-12) 2020-08-28

Data Update

• Swiss data level 1. Change data provider from JHU CSSE to Federal Office of Public Health FOPH. Affected variables: confirmed, deaths, hosp.

COVID19 2.3.0 (2020-09-20) 2020-08-28

Data Update

• Added data for:

  • Chile: level 1, 2, and 3 (confirmed, tests, deaths, recovered, hosp, icu, population)
  • Taiwan: level 1 and 2 (confirmed, latitude, longitude, population)

COVID19 2.3.0 (2020-09-20) 2020-08-28

Data Update

• Added data for:

  • Thailand: level 1 and 2 (confirmed, deaths, recovered, hosp)
  • Ireland: level 1 and 2 (tests, confirmed, deaths, hosp, icu)

COVID19 2.3.0 (2020-09-05) 2020-08-28

Data Update

• Added data for:

  • Poland: level 2 and 3 (deaths)
  • Croatia: level 2 (confirmed, deaths)

COVID19 2.3.0 (2020-08-28) 2020-08-28

Minor changes

• R and Python packages now return raw data by default.

COVID19 2.2.0 (2020-08-17) 2020-07-13

Minor changes

• UK data (all levels). Change the access to https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk from the legacy CSV downloads to the new API.

COVID19 2.2.0 (2020-07-17) 2020-07-13

Major changes

• drop severe cases (equivalent to icu)

COVID19 2.0.0 (2020-06-21) 2020-05-18

Major changes

• US data level 3 (counties). Change data provider from JHU CSSE to New York Times. Only minor counties not provided by New York Times are still from JHU CSSE.