/covid19-in-africa

Daily Update on Covid-19 Cases Reported for Countries in Africa.

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covid19-in-africa

covid19-in-africa is a dataset repository for COVID-19 cases in Africa. We Load the data from the Johns Hopkins University Center for Systems Science and Engineering (JHU CSSE) CSSEGISandData / COVID-19 GitHub repository.

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Changelog

Changes:

Full changelog: CHANGELOG.md

Update Status

Commit Status:

CI download historic Covid-19 Cases

Workflow status by countries:

Country Status Data Source

TODO

Dataset

Tabular Data

The tabular data files are located in the datasets folder (sample head as of Nov 24, 2020). The folder dataset/daily holds the daily updates for each country.

Country/Region Date Confirmed Deaths Recovered
Algeria 11-24-2020 77000 2309 50070
Angola 11-24-2020 14742 338 7444
Benin 11-24-2020 2916 43 2579
Botswana 11-24-2020 9992 31 7692
Burkina Faso 11-24-2020 2757 68 2557

Scrapers

The scripts that are used to update the data are located in the scripts folder. Create a new environment and run:

pip install -r scripts/requirements.txt
python scripts/african_cases_full.py

to install the requirements, and save the latest available data.

Workflows

The workflows that update the datasets are defined in .github/workflows. The python scripts are scheduled to run on GitHub Actions.

Community

contributions welcome

Bugs and requests: PRs are welcome.

License

The source code is licensed under the MIT license.