Deprecation note:

During the (late) devlopment of this script, I learned about rki-covid-api which offers this data, but as far as I could tell, only the most current data. For another project, I needed data for past days/weeks, so I continued working on this script. Now, rki-covid-data also has historic data, so this project is no longer needed.

covid-incidence-germany

This project can be used as-is, but is has been created to work in conjunction with riskjournal.

A simple (but inefficient) bash script to generate weekly incidence data for each administrative district (Landkreis)

Use case

The Robert Koch Institut (short: RKI) provides daily stats on the Covid-19 infections in Germany. They are available via ArcGIS as API and as a CSV download. The data is also archived by the NDR as CSV and by the ARD as JSON.

All of these data sources contain a lot of details, even up to individual infection cases.

The political discurse in Germany around Covid-19, as well as many tools (like Microcovid) operate with incidence data, specifically with the number of new Covid-19 cases per 100.000 inhabitants during the past 7 days, for each administrative district (Landkreis). It seems that this incidence data is not readily available anywhere.

Requirements

You can either run this script:

using Docker
- e.g. like this: docker build -t cig . && docker run cig
- the docker version uses a cron job to update the data every 4 hours
directly, if you are on a unix-like system and have:
- curl
- gzip
- bash
- a version of date that understands the -d flag as described here, e.g. the coreutils version

Output

To be improved, and then documented. Currently there's only a bunch of csv files.

Known issues