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Launch of the COVID-19 Data Portal

By SDSN Secretariat

About the COVID-19 Data Portal

Today, we launch the COVID-19 Data Portal of the Lancet Commission on COVID-19. It provides access to the latest data available on COVID-19, such as new cases, deaths, positive test rate, and other valuable data to gauge the transmission and response to the pandemic. It features 3.5 million data points, covering 216 countries over a period of 284 days (and counting).
The datais pooled from different sources, including Johns Hopkins University, Our World in Data, Oxford, YouGov, and Google. The full database (in CSV format) is accessible here: https://sdsna.github.io/lancet-covid-19-database/data/database.csv. The full list of the indicators and their description are available here: https://data.covid19commission.org/indicators

The data portal is updated daily from Monday to Friday. Over time, more heat maps and graphs will be added, including data to track the socio-economic impacts of the pandemic.

COVID-19 Overall Transmission

The interactive map below shows an assessment of the overall transmission of COVID-19, showing which countries have suppressed the virus and where COVID-19 is spreading. The assessment is based on the methodology described in the Lancet COVID-19 Commission Statement on the occasion of the 75th session of the UN General Assembly. It is based on two key measures: new cases per million and the positive test rate. The assessment is updated daily from Monday to Friday.
The map can also be accessed via the COVID-19 Data Portal: https://data.covid19commission.org/map/overall-transmission

Contact, Feedback, Suggestions

We will be expanding our list of indicators and improving our data portal over the coming weeks and months. Our database and data portal are open source. The source code is available on GitHub: Database · Data Portal

For questions, comments, and suggestions, please contact finn.woelm@unsdsn.org or ime2111@columbia.edu.

About the Lancet COVID-19 Commission

The Lancet Commission on COVID-19 is an interdisciplinary initiative across the health sciences, business, finance, and public policy.

The work of the Commission has four main themes:

  1. Recommendations on how to best suppress the epidemic.
  2. Addressing the humanitarian crises arising from the pandemic.
  3. Addressing the financial and economic crises resulting from the pandemic.
  4. Rebuilding an inclusive, fair and sustainable world.

The work of the Commission will be supported by several task forces, in areas ranging from vaccine development, to safe workplaces, to global economic recovery. The Secretariat of the Commission is jointly hosted at the Center for Sustainable Development ( CSD ) at Columbia University, and the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN).

You can learn more about the Lancet COVID-19 Commission here: https://covid19commission.org/