covid-19_global_spread

The dataset contains information about the spread of the Covid-19 virus around the world. Each record represents the data associated with a country affected by the virus. At the time of this writing, there are a total of 162 affected countries, and therefore 162 records in the dataset.

The data has been extracted from the following website: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/. The team that supports this website is made up of developers and researchers from all over the world who work to collect and publish statistics on different topics. This website belongs to Dadax, an independent company. We can find more information on the website at the following link: https://www.worldometers.info/about/.

Regarding the displayed propagation data of the Covid-19, this page has been collecting the information since the beginning of the propagation, so all the hitorical data is also available for future work.

This website update the information daily. Between the main sources they emphasize official organisms like:

1. Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) situation reports - World Health Organization (WHO)
2. 2019 Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) in the U.S. -. U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
3. Outbreak Notification - National Health Commission (NHC) of the People’s Republic of China

More information regarding sources can be found on the website “Sources” section.