Weekly Europe's COVID-19 Testing and Positivity Rates

Source: R/testing_weekly_eu.R

A dataset containing weekly COVID-19 testing and positivity positivity rate of 30 countries in Europe (EU/EEA member countries and UK).

testing_weekly_eu

Format

a tibble with 954 observations and 9 variables.

  • country: name of the country

  • country_code: 2-letter ISO country code

  • year_week: week of the year in yyyy-ww format

  • new_cases: number of new confirmed cases

  • test_done: number of test done

  • population: 2019 population from the World Bank

  • testing_rate: testing rate per 100,000 population

  • positivity_rate: weekly test positivity (%): 100 x Number of new confirmed cases/number of tests done per week

  • testing_data_source: data source of testing

Source

European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control