COVID-19 in the Russian Federation

Description

This repository contains data on COVID-19 epidemics in the Russian Federation from 2020-01-31 through 2023-05-15. The dataset is based on a range of sources. The very first cases were collected from the news reports. Since 2020-03-05 the data were manually extracted from the official reports published by Rospotrebnadzor (Federal Service for Surveillance on Consumer Rights Protection and Human Wellbeing / Russia) at its own website. From 2020-04-09 on, Rospotrebnadzor reports were available in machine-readable formats (a regular HTML table and then, from 2020-04-29, as a JSON string) at the "Стопкоронавирус.рф" (Stopkoronavirus) web portal on a daily basis through 2023-05-15, when the reporting scheme was changed from daily to weekly reports. For all days, the data contain numbers for confirmed COVID-19 cases, recovered from COVID-19, and COVID-19-associated deaths by regions. From 2021-10-17 on, it also contains numbers of vaccinated against COVID-19, and, from 2022-01-25 on, of the COVID-19-associated hospitalizations. The scripts needed to load the data into the R environment and to produce derived statistics and infographics as well as examples of infographics and an extended assessment of the data quality are also provided.

Countries

Russia Ukraine

Keywords

Official Statistics Covid-19 Pandemic

Language of data

English Russian

Disciplines

Demography Public Health

Methods of data collection

Document Analysis Web Scraping

Methods of data analysis

Descriptive Statistics