Saturday, June 27, 2020

Archived - COVID-19: epidemiology, genetics and data (no longer being updated)

Links last checked 3rd February 2022.  Item labelled NEW was added 27th June 2022


How many cases?
See the WHO dashboard or the Johns Hopkins CSSE map.   JHU CSSE shows number of cases, recoveries and deaths.   

Official UK government COVID data - cases, testing, deaths, healthcare.  Scroll down to search for data for a specific geographical area.  Go to the cases, deaths, healthcare or testing pages to find data for a nation, region or local authority area.



Real-Time Assessment of Community Transmission (REACT) 

For up to date information relevant to the NHS, look at NHS Evidence Search (this service closes on 31 March 2022).

Research data

COVID-19 data portal
Sequence data for the virus and host, biochemical data, expression and protein data.  And a search facility for EuropePMC.   Maintained by EMBL-EBI.

Epidemiological information

China Center for Disease Control and Prevention: Tracking the Epidemic (in English).  Numbers of cases and deaths.

ProMedMail for reports of cases.

HealthMap.  Displays ProMedMail data in graphical form. Use Your Location at the top of the screen to display data for a specific country or city.   Current alerts will be shown to the left.


Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (USA)


European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control

UK Health Security Agency / DHSC


Genetic and related information


SARS-CoV-2 Variants Overview.   From the National Library of Medicine, aggregates data from GenBank and the Sequence Read Archive.

COVID-19 Genomics UK Consortium (COG-UK) Group of NHS, academic and other institutions undertaking virus sequencing.   


Rapid access to SARS-CoV-2 data (NCBI Insight)

NCBI SARS-CoV resources
Literature, sequence and protein sequence data, clinical trials

There are multiple sequences in the NCBI Virus SARS-CoV-2 Data Hub.

There are multiple sequences in the GISAID database (registration required)



I have posts covering other aspects of COVID-19.   Links are on the page here.

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