The daily updated Dutch national database on COVID-19 epidemiology, vaccination and sewage surveillance.

ABSTRACT: The Dutch national open database on COVID-19 has been incrementally expanded since its start on 30 April 2020 and now includes datasets on symptoms, tests performed, individual-level positive cases and deaths, cases and deaths among vulnerable populations, settings of transmission, hospital and ICU admissions, SARS-CoV-2 variants, viral loads in sewage, vaccinations and the effective reproduction number. This data is collected by municipal health services, laboratories, hospitals, sewage treatment plants, vaccination providers and citizens and is cleaned, analysed and published, mostly daily, by the National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM) in the Netherlands, using automated scripts. Because these datasets cover the key aspects of the pandemic and are available at de

SUBMITTER: Geubbels ELPE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10359398 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature