GetCovidData Class

class GetCovidData.GetCOVIDData(nation)

Bases: object

This class will download 3 CSV files from the UK Governments COVID API. These files will be saved in /data/autoimport and loaded in memory by the LoadDatasets class

pull_data(nation)

This method is called when the GetCovidData object is created.

Example:

from GetCovidData import GetCOVIDData as datapull
pulldata = dataPull("England")

It downloads covid data using the UK Governments COVID-19 API Version 1. You can add more fields to this class in order to get different datasets. The current datasets that are downloaded can be view below.

date

areaName

areaCode

hospitalCases

newAdmissions

newCasesBySpecimenDate

newDeaths28DaysByDeathDate

newPillarTwoTestsByPublishDate

newDeaths28DaysByPublishDate

newPillarOneTestsByPublishDate

newCasesLFDConfirmedPCRBySpecimenDate

newCasesPCROnlyBySpecimenDate

newPCRTestsByPublishDate

newLFDTests

newCasesLFDOnlyBySpecimenDate

cumPeopleVaccinatedSecondDoseByPublishDate

newCasesByPublishDate

newCasesBySpecimenDateAgeDemographics

newDeaths28DaysByDeathDateAgeDemographics

vaccinationsAgeDemographics

To view datasets that can be added go to https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/details/download

Note

Age profiled data for Scotland, Wales and NI is not available. If you select one of these nations the age profiled data will not be downloaded. You will only download non-age specific data saved in data.csv

Args:

nation

String Value, can be “England”, “Scotland” or “Wales”

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