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Data on the daily number of new reported COVID-19 cases and deaths by EU/EEA country

Data set

The downloadable data file is updated daily and contains the latest available public data on COVID-19. Each row/entry contains the number of new cases and deaths reported per day and per country in the EU/EEA. You may use the data in line with ECDC’s copyright policy.

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Data dictionary for the daily EU/EEA reporting on COVID-19 - EN - [PDF-111.89 KB]

How is the data collected? ECDC copyright policy

Disclaimer: Population data in the database is taken from Eurostat for EU/EEA countries.

Download the data:

Download in XLSX

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Download in XML

These files are not suitable to be viewed in web browsers. Please either right click on the file, choose “save link as” and open with a suitable application, e.g. R, Python, or Excel, Spreadsheet or Notepad.

 

Script for downloading the CSV file into “R” software

Make sure that you have the “utils” package installed.

#these libraries need to be loaded
library(utils)

#read the Dataset sheet into “R”. The dataset will be called "data".
data <- read.csv("https://opendata.ecdc.europa.eu/covid19/nationalcasedeath_eueea_daily_ei/csv", na.strings = "", fileEncoding = "UTF-8-BOM")