population

This is a repository for COVID-19 in South Africa containing datasets on testing, cases, recoveries, deaths, transmission types, and hospital surveillance data.

non-collection specific

(Simple) Released

Province

District

Republic of South Africa

English

CC BY-SA 4.0

ORCID

Dr. Vukosi Marivate

Data Science for Social Impact Research Group at University of Pretoria

COVID-19 South Africa

A census that is the specific outcome of a population demographic survey.

population demographic census

A social identity information content entity that is about whether some person identifies as some gender.

gender identity information content entity

age-stratified

A census of infectious disease control strategies put into place to reduce infection acquisitions that are part of an infection in an ecosystem.

control strategy census

A population treatment census that is about one or more vaccinations of organisms in a population.

vaccination administration census

Information about capacity, including hospital beds, PPE supplies, nursing home capacity, testing sites, therapeutics, etc.

health system capacity

A census that counts the number of treatment facilities of some kind in a particular geographical region.

treatment facility census

Counts of cases, deaths, etc. Often includes multiple types of counts as not compatible with more specific labels. Information about diagnostic tests, results, including serology tests, PCR, and other tests. Can include various methods of estimation, including the COVID-19 Forecast and Scenario Hubs.

case counts

A dataset that is about two or more hospital stays involving two or more patients.

hospital stay dataset

A data set that is about either some mortality rate or the death events themselves of some individuals of a given population of a particular biological taxon.

mortality data

A population mortality dataset that compares deaths in the population during one time interval to deaths in the population during a previous time interval and reports an estimate of how many more or less deaths occurred in the later time interval.

excess mortality dataset

Actions of groups of people in response to outbreaks.

behavior

A data set that is about the human daily movement behavior of the individual huamns in a given population.

human daily movement data set

An organism of a particular biological taxon that is the bearer of an infectious dispositions towards an organism of a different particular biological taxon.

pathogen

Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2

An organism of a particular biological taxon that is the site of reproduction of an organism of a different taxon.

host organism

Homo sapiens

A disease is a disposition (i) to undergo pathological processes that (ii) exists in an organism because of one or more disorders in that organism.

disease

A disease whose physical basis is an infectious disorder.

infectious disease

A Coronavirus infection that is characterized by fever, cough and shortness of breath and that has_material_basis_in SARS-CoV-2.

COVID-19

A data item that is an aggregate of other data items of the same type that have something in common. Averages and distributions can be determined for data sets.

Identifier	URL:https://github.com/dsfsi/covid19za
Type	data set
Biological Scale	population
Collection End Date
Language	English
Topics	behavior human daily movement data set case counts hospital stay dataset mortality data excess mortality dataset control strategy census vaccination administration census disease infectious disease COVID-19 health system capacity treatment facility census host organism Homo sapiens pathogen Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 population demographic census age-stratified gender identity information content entity
Geographical Scope	Republic of South Africa
Geographical Resolution	Province, District
Start Date	2020/02/11
End Date
Version	unspecified
Accessible For Free	TRUE
License	CC BY-SA 4.0
Rights	https://github.com/dsfsi/covid19za/blob/master/README.md
HTTP Status Code	200
HTTP Checked On	2025/06/16