This is the data repository for the 2019 Novel Coronavirus (formerly known as 2019-nCoV infection or simply COVID-19). The main objective of this repository is to facilitate access to COVID-19 data in Colombia to bring a more comprehensive picture of the current situation.
The COVID-19 Colombia Project designed this data repository for tracking the evolution of the 2019-nCoV in Colombia. These datasets it is being made available to the public interested (researchers, scientists, news media, and government officials) who would like to understand the outbreak better.
The repository databases can be used to power any dashboard and serve to report tracking the virus in all departments, municipalities, and cities from Colombia.
- Datos Abiertos Colombia: https://www.datos.gov.co/
- Instituto Nacional de Salud (INS): https://www.ins.gov.co/
- Ministerio de Salud (MINSALUD): https://www.minsalud.gov.co/
- Ministerio de Tecnologías de la Información y las Comunicaciones (MINTIC): https://www.mintic.gov.co/
The data is the product of professionals working across several cities from Colombia, that monitor local news and analyze official data releases. It is also a response to the official reports of INS and MINSALUD that, on several occasions, have corrected information hours or days after first reporting it. At times, cases have moved a patient first identified in municipality or city to another, often with no explanation. These instances have become more common as the number of cases in Colombia has grown.
For those reasons, our data will, in some cases, not exactly match the information reported. Those differences include, among others, these cases:
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The Ministry of Health (MISALUD) did not publish cases official report on March 12, 2020 (official reports were only on March 11 and 13). After several days, he assigned some confirmed cases from March 11 and 13 to March 12.
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The total cases reported by the government on March 21, 22, and 23, 2020, do not coincide with those presented in the database available in INS. In some cases, there have been changes in the dates of diagnosis.
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Sometimes patients diagnosed with COVIC-19 are observed in a different municipality than the one reported days later. This situation has happened, among others, in some municipalities of the department of Antioquia.
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The first coronavirus death in Colombia occurred on March 16, 2020, in the city of Cartagena de Indias. This case was officially reported on March 21, but days later it appears published on March 22 in the database available in INS.
We want to thank all those organizations and professionals who helped to compliment the data sets. Several individuals have contributed to the specific data added to this repository. Their names and contact address are listed below.
| Name | Github | Contribution | |
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| Julio Mario Daza Escorcia | juliom.dazae@konradlorenz.edu.co | @juliomariodaza | Dataset creator: covid_19_daily_reports and covid_19_daily_reports |
| Elis Hading Daza Escorcia | mr.daza@ingenieros.com | @MrDaza | Dataset creator: minsalud_covid_19_sit_rep_csvs and minsalud_covid_19_sit_rep_pdfs |
The organizations of which the members of our team are part are:
| Institution | Research Center | City, Country |
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| Universidad Konrad Lorenz | Research Center for Mathematics and Engineering | Bogotá, Colombia. |
| inHouse SAS | Research and Development | Bogotá, Colombia. |
If you want to contribute to Github repository: Welcome, it is a great pleasure for us to have your support!
Now, please contact us and tell us how you want to collaborate, or what you would like to do in The COVID-19 Colombia Project team.
If you have questions about the data or licensing conditions, please contact us at:
- Email: CovidDataProject@gmail.com
This GitHub repo and its contents herein, including all data, code, mapping, visual dashboards, and analysis, copyright 2020 The COVID-19 Colombia Project, all rights reserved, is provided to the public strictly for educational and academic research purposes.
The Website relies upon publicly available data from multiple sources, that do not always agree. The team from The COVID-19 Colombia Project, as a result of this, disclaims any all representations and warranties concerning the Website, including accuracy, fitness for use, and merchantability. Reliance on the Website for medical guidance or use of the Website in commerce is strictly prohibited.
In general, we are making this data publicly available for broad, noncommercial public use, including by researchers, scientists, news media, and government officials.
If you use this data, you must attribute it to " The COVID-19 Colombia Project " in any publication. If you would like a more expanded description of the data, you could say, " Data from The COVID-19 Colombia Project ", based on reports from the Ministry of Health (MINSALUD).
If you use it in an online presentation, we would appreciate it if you would link to our web page at CovidDataProject.com.
If you use this data, please let us know at CovidDataProject@gmail.com.
See our LICENSE for the full terms of use for this data.
This license is co-extensive with the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International license, and licensees should refer to that license (CC BY-NC) if they have questions about the scope of the license.