Coronavirus COVID-19 (2019-nCoV) Data Repository for South Africa created, maintained and hosted by Data Science for Social Impact research group, led by Dr. Vukosi Marivate, at the University of Pretoria.
Disclaimer: We have worked to keep the data as accurate as possible. We collate the COVID 19 reporting data from NICD and DoH. We only update that data once there is an official report or statement. For the other data, we work to keep the data as accurate as possible. If you find errors. Make a pull request.
If you use this repo for any research/development/innovation, please contact us (see contacts below)
See our blog posts:
- Why we built this and how we are working,
- How this is a call to action across the African continent
- A few weeks in, Data Science thoughts on COVID-19 in South Africa
If you are interested in the Africa-wide effort: Go to https://github.com/dsfsi/covid19africa
For information on daily updates on the repo, go to https://twitter.com/vukosi/status/1239184086633242630?s=20
Code 
Data Available [/data]
Please note that these reports are the daily reports as released by the National Department of Health or the NICD. The new cases reported are based on new positive test reports released. However, there may be significant lag from when the patient was tested. As an example in epidemiological Week 1 of 2021 (3-9 Jan) approximately 33k new cases were reported on the daily announcement. However, the NICD Testing Summary Report for Week 3 of 2021 (which also reports the two previous weeks) shows that the number of positive tests was 43635 for Week 1 of 2021. The difference is due to the lag in testing being done -- some of the 33k cases reported on the daily announcments were actually from prior weeks while a large number of people were tested between 3-9 January, but the cases were only reported from the 10th onwards. Care needs to be taken in doing some analyses to take this into account.
NOTE: Since around 24 March 2020, we have not gotten individual case data from DoH or NICD. For now if you need provincial counts use the provincial_cumulative_timeline. For individual cases up to 25 March 2020, use the confirmed_cases.
| dataset | url | raw_url[file] |
|---|---|---|
| confirmed_cases* [updated to 25 March 2020] | covid19za_timeline_confirmed | covid19za_timeline_confirmed.csv |
| deaths | covid19za_timeline_deaths | covid19za_timeline_deaths.csv |
* NICD no longer gives individual case data. Please use provincial_cumulative_timeline from 26 March 2020 onwards.
- Google Data Studio Dashboard URL link
- NICD - South Africa URL
- Department of Health - South Africa Main Site, Twitter
- South African Government Media Statements URL
- National Department of Health Data Dictionary URL
- MedPages URL
- Statistics South Africa URL
- I want to help, but don't have an idea: You can take a look at the issues to see which one you might be interested in tackling.
- I have an idea or new feature: Create a new issue first, assign it to yourself and then fork the repo.
Once you have chosen how you are going to contribute, you must list which files you will be working on by adding your name to the adopt-a-file csv file. Edit covid19za_volunteer_adopted_file.
- Data Science Africa COVID-19 Response
- IndabaX South Africa: Vukosi Marivate - Using data science to inform the COVID-19 outbreak in Africa
- Stanford <> CS472 Data science and AI for COVID-19
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- Vukosi Marivate - [email protected], @vukosi
On a visualisation/notebook/webapp:
Data Science for Social Impact Research Group @ University of Pretoria, Coronavirus COVID-19 (2019-nCoV) Data Repository for South Africa. Available on: https://github.com/dsfsi/covid19za.
In a publication
Data Science Journal
@article{marivate2020use, Author = {Vukosi Marivate and Herkulaas MvE Combrink}, Journal = {Data Science Journal}, Number = {1}, Pages = {1-7}, Title = {Use of Available Data To Inform The COVID-19 Outbreak in South Africa: A Case Study.}, Volume = {19}, Year = {2020}, url = {https://doi.org/10.5334/dsj-2020-019} }
and Dataset
@dataset{marivate_vukosi_2020_3819126, author = {Marivate, Vukosi and Arbi, Riaz and Combrink, Herkulaas and de Waal, Alta and Dryza, Henkho and Egersdorfer, Derrick and Garnett, Shaun and Gordon, Brent and Greyling, Lizel and Lebogo, Ofentswe and Mackie, Dave and Merry, Bruce and Mkhondwane, S'busiso and Mokoatle, Mpho and Moodley, Shivan and Mtsweni, Jabu and Mtsweni, Nompumelelo and Myburgh, Paul and Richter, Jannik and Rikhotso, Vuthlari and Rosen, Simon and Sefara, Joseph and van der Walt, Anelda and van Heerden, Schalk and Welsh, Jay and Hazelhurst, Scott and Petersen, Chad and Mbuvha, Rendani and Dhlamini, Nelisiwe and James, Vaibhavi}, title = {{Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) case data - South Africa}}, month = mar, year = 2020, publisher = {Zenodo}, doi = {10.5281/zenodo.3819126}, url = {https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3819126} }
Some of COVID-19 Data for South Africa (data in this repo) is currently being used by other independent projects shown in the table below :
| Project Name | Project Description | Project Demo | Project owner | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. Covid-19 SA Data | Data visualizations corresponding to the current Covid-19 outbreak in South Africa | [Website],[GitHub Repo] | Simon Rosen | South Africa |
| 2. Covid-19 testing areas | A Covid-19 Testing Facilities Map | [Website],[GitHub Repo] | Yannick Zehnder | Switzerland |
| 3. Covid-19 Map | A Coronavirus Map | [Website] [GitHub Repo] | Jay Welsh | South Africa |
| 4. Covid-19 Telegram Bot | Corona virus statistics via Telegram | Link | CodeChap | South Africa |
| 5. Covid-19 Xitsonga Dashboard | Xitsonga Dashboard | Link | xitsonga.org | South Africa |
| 6. Hospitals' capacity to respond to Covid-19 | Data visualization mapping local hospitals (private ad public) in South Africa | [Map Viz] ,[Repo] | Nompumelelo | South Africa |
| 7. Covid-19 Trends | Covid-19 analytics dashboard for South Africa | [Website] [Repo] | Schalk van Heerden | South Africa |
| 8. Covid-19 Tshivenda Dashboard | Tshivenda Dashboard | Link | luvenda.com | South Africa |
| 9. Map of Health facilites around me | Map showing comparable details of hospitals around my location in response to Covid-19 | [Webpage] , [GitHub Repo] | These authors | South Africa |
| 10. R-based Interactive health facilties Map | Afrimapr, mapping health facilities using R-building blocks | [Webpage] [Repo] | Dr Andy South | United Kingdom |
| 11. Estimating the Reproductive Number of COVID-19 | Estimating effective reproductive number for SA, it's provinces and other countries. | [Website] | Louis Rossouw | South Africa |
| 12. Modelling COVID-19 in South Africa at a Provincial Level | Modelling COVID-19 in South Africa at a Provincial Level using reported and excess deaths. | [Website] | Louis Rossouw | South Africa |
| 13. South African Provincial COVID-19 Visualization | Visualize deaths, cases and recoveries alongside mobility data on a provincial level. Additionally, visualize cahnge of cases over a weekly basis. | [Website] | Christopher Marais | South Africa |
| 14. Differential Evolution to Optimize A Long-term Multi-strain Model of COVID-19 in South Africa | Uses Differential Evolution (an Evolutionary Optimization Algorithm) for data fitting and parameter estimation. | Link to be provided. | CJ Pretorius and MC du Plessis | South Africa |
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