Items corresponding to entire populations or subpopulations. Might be geographically or temporally temporally limited.

population

The “SARS‑CoV‑2 Infections in Germany” dataset by the Robert Koch‑Institute offers daily updated, openly accessible data on COVID‑19 cases in Germany. It includes confirmed cases, deaths, and recoveries reported by local health authorities under the German Infection Protection Act (IfSG). Data is further broken down by district, gender, and age group.

non-collection specific

(Simple) Released

Comma-separated values: a delimited text file format for tabular data.

District

Federal Republic of Germany

German

CC BY 4.0

ORCID

Hannes Wuensche

Linus Grabenhenrich

Herrmann Claus

Robert Koch Institute

Michaela Diercke

SARS‑CoV‑2 Infections in Germany

A species of BETACORONAVIRUS causing atypical respiratory disease (COVID-19) in humans. The organism was first identified in 2019 in Wuhan, China. The natural host is the Chinese intermediate horseshoe bat, RHINOLOPHUS affinis.

Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2

SARS-CoV2

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

host organism

Host

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

Disease

A disease whose physical basis is an infectious disorder

infectious disease

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 count of individuals in a population who meet the criteria of some case definition during some time interval.

count of disease cases

Case Count

A count of deaths in a population that is the number of deaths that occurred during a proper part of a reference temporal interval.

incident death count

Incident Death Count

viral Infectious disease

Viruses Infection

A count of cases in a population that is the number of individuals who come to meet the criteria of some case definition during a proper part of a reference temporal interval.

incident case count

Incident Case Count

A count of recovery that occured in a population in a given temporal region

count of recovered in a population

Recovery Count

A count of recovery in a population that is the number of recovery that occured during a proper occurent part of a reference temporal interval.

incident recovered count

Incident Recovered Count

 A count of simulated or physical individuals in a population.

Population count

Population Count

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

gender identity information content entity

Gender

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

Mortality

age-stratified

Age-Stratified

Vaccine preventable diseases are those infectious diseases that can be prevented by vaccination

vaccine-preventable Disease

Vaccine-Preventable Disease

A respiratory tract infection caused by a virus. Viruses represent the most common causes of upper and lower respiratory tract infections and include rhinoviruses, influenza viruses, parainfluenza viruses, and respiratory syncytial virus.

viral respiratory tract infection

Viral Respiratory Tract Infection

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

population demographic census

Population Demographic

Minute infectious agents whose genomes are composed of DNA or RNA, but not both. They are characterized by a lack of independent metabolism and the inability to replicate outside living host cells.

Viruses

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

Pathogen

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.

data set

Topic

Digital Object Type

Geographic Resolution

Apache 2.0

Schema.org vocabulary for structured data on the web

Schema.org

A structured data markup specification for describing datasets in the life sciences, extending schema.org Dataset

Bioschemas Dataset Profile

Dublin Core Metadata Initiative Terms - refined elements for precise resource description

DCMI Metadata Terms

W3C Data Catalog Vocabulary for describing data catalogs

Data Catalog Vocabulary

DataCite metadata schema for research data citation

DataCite Metadata Schema

W3C Provenance Ontology for describing provenance information

PROV Ontology

Provenance, Authoring and Versioning ontology for metadata about web resources

PAV Ontology

Custom MIDAS vocabulary for epidemiological data and modeling

MIDAS Metadata Vocabulary

OBO Foundry ontologies for life sciences and biomedical research

Open Biological and Biomedical Ontology

GeoNames Ontology

Health Level 7 Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources

HL7 FHIR

Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine Clinical Terms

SNOMED Clinical Terms

LOINC database for laboratory and clinical observations

Logical Observation Identifiers Names and Codes

JSON Schema (Draft 2020-12) defining the structure of MIDAS Catalog JSON-LD metadata records

MIDAS Catalog JSON-LD Schema

Searchable collection of curated datasets and software resources for infectious disease modeling, filterable by disease, topic, location, and time period.

Identifier	URL: https://github.com/robert-koch-institut/SARS-CoV-2-Infektionen_in_Deutschland
Type	Data Set
Topics/About	Disease Infectious Disease Vaccine-Preventable Disease COVID-19 Viruses Infection Viral Respiratory Tract Infection COVID-19 Host Homo sapiens Pathogen Viruses SARS-CoV2 Population Count Case Count Incident Case Count Mortality Incident Death Count Recovery Count Incident Recovered Count Population Demographic Age-Stratified Gender
Language	German
License	CC BY 4.0
Accessible For Free	TRUE
Biological Scale	population
Geographical Scope	Federal Republic of Germany
Geographical Resolution	District
Start Date	2020/01/01
File Format	CSV
Version	ongoing
HTTP Status Code	200
HTTP Checked On	2026/09/27