Covid-19

Covid-19 stands for the Coronavirus (nCoV) disease 2019.

On 12 February 2020, the novel coronavirus was named severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (Sars-CoV-2) while the disease associated with it is now referred to as covid-19.

Institutions

 * EC, Public Health, Coronavirus - covid-19
 * ECDC, Threats and outbreaks, Covid-19
 * EMA, Coronavirus disease (covid-19)


 * CN CCDC.cn, Covid-19, in English and French
 * US CDC.gov, Coronavirus disease 2019 (covid-19)


 * WHO, Diseases, Coronavirus disease 2019


 * (es) US CDC.gov, Enfermedad del coronavirus 2019 (covid-19)
 * (fr) gouvernement.fr, Informations coronavirus

Maps and dashboards

 * Arcgis.com, Coronavirus covid-19 global cases by Johns Hopkins CSSE
 * Bloomberg.com, The covid resilience ranking
 * ECDC, Dashboard - covid-19 cases worldwide
 * Economist.com, economist.com/coronavirus-pandemic
 * FT.com, ft.com/coronavirus-latest
 * Politico.eu, politico.eu/coronavirus-in-europe
 * Politico.eu, Coronavirus in Europe — by the numbers, some nice animated charts
 * US CDC, Locations with confirmed covid-19 Cases - global map
 * OurWorldInData.org, Max Roser, Hannah Ritchie and Esteban Ortiz-Ospina (2020), Coronavirus disease (covid-19) – Statistics and research
 * Wikipedia, 2019–20 coronavirus outbreak, some nice charts

Data

 * ECDC
 * Daily data, Download today’s data on the geographic distribution of covid-19 cases worldwide
 * Weekly data, of which:
 * data on hospital and ICU admission rates and occupancy
 * data on testing by week and country
 * data on the weekly subnational (NUTS) 14-day notification rate of new cases
 * data on country response measures

News

 * 27 Mar 2021, The Economist, Testing and tracing could have worked better against covid-19, Many countries did not use the technology to its utmost
 * 7 April 2020, ECB, Press release, ECB announces package of temporary collateral easing measures
 * 6 April 2020,, Coronavirus: Commission and European Investment Fund (part of EIB Group) unlock €8 billion in finance for 100,000 small and medium-sized businesses
 * 23 March 2020, Consilium, Statement of EU ministers of finance on the Stability and Growth Pact in light of the covid-19 crisis
 * 20 March 2020,, Coronavirus: Commission proposes to activate fiscal framework's general escape clause to respond to pandemic.
 * 16 March 2020, Consilium, Statement on covid-19 economic policy response
 * 13 March 2020, ECB, Press release, ECB announces €750 billion pandemic emergency purchase programme (PEPP)
 * 6 March 2020, AOL.com, The U.S. has the world's highest coronavirus death rate at more than 5% - a number that reflects the country's lack of testing
 * 24 February 2020, European Commission, The EU's response to covid-19, ALL MS languages.

Studies

 * PubMed.gov, Persistence of coronaviruses on inanimate surfaces and their inactivation with biocidal agents, by Kampf G, Todt D, Pfaender S, Steinmann E, in The Journal of public infection, 2020, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhin.2020.01.022
 * Methods for estimating the case fatality ratio for a novel, emerging infectious disease. During the course of an epidemic of a potentially fatal disease, it is important that the case fatality ratio be well estimated..., A. C. Ghani, C. A. Donnelly, D. R. Cox, J. T. Griffin, C. Fraser, T. H. Lam, L. M. Ho, W. S. Chan, R. M. Anderson, A. J. Hedley, G. M. Leung, American Journal of Epidemiology, Volume 162, Issue 5, 1 September 2005, Pages 479–486, https://doi.org/10.1093/aje/kwi230
 * The Economist.com, Covid pandemic mortality risk estimator, Covid-19 cases can be shaped by medical conditions and demography. Our risk model estimates chances of death and hospitalisation based on age, sex and comorbidities., online on 11 Mar 2021.

EUR-Lex

 * , Council Recommendation (EU) 2020/1475 of 13 October 2020 on a coordinated approach to the restriction of free movement in response to the covid-19 pandemic (Text with EEA relevance),
 * , Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament, the European Council, the Council, The European Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions - Short-term EU health preparedness for covid-19 outbreaks, Brussels, 15 July 2020.
 * , Council Recommendation (EU) 2020/912 of 30 June 2020 on the temporary restriction on non-essential travel into the EU and the possible lifting of such restriction ST/9208/2020/INIT OJ L 208I, 1.7.2020, p. 1–7 (BG, ES, CS, DA, DE, ET, EL, EN, FR, HR, IT, LV, LT, HU, MT, NL, PL, PT, RO, SK, SL, FI, SV)
 * , Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament, the European Council, the Council, the European Central Bank, the European Investment Bank and the Eurogroup - Coordinated economic response to the covid-19 outbreak, Brussels, 13 March 2020.