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Data Brief. 2020 Dec;33:106424. doi: 10.1016/j.dib.2020.106424. Epub 2020 Oct 21.

An exploratory assessment of a multidimensional healthcare and economic data on COVID-19 in Nigeria.

Data in brief

Ezekiel Ogundepo, Sakinat Folorunso, Olubayo Adekanmbi, Olalekan Akinsande, Oluwatobi Banjo, Emeka Ogbuju, Francisca Oladipo, Olawale Abimbola, Ehizokhale Oseghale, Oluwatobi Babajide

Affiliations

  1. Data Science Nigeria (DSN).
  2. The Department of Mathematical Sciences, Olabisi Onabanjo University, Ago Iwoye, Ogun State, Nigeria.
  3. The Department of Computer Science, Federal University Lokoja, Nigeria.

PMID: 33102643 PMCID: PMC7576378 DOI: 10.1016/j.dib.2020.106424

Abstract

The coronavirus disease of 2019 (COVID-19) is a pandemic that is ravaging Nigeria and the world at large. This data article provides a dataset of daily updates of COVID-19 as reported online by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) from February 27, 2020 to September 29, 2020. The data were obtained through web scraping from different sources and it includes some economic variables such as the Nigeria budget for each state in 2020, population estimate, healthcare facilities, and the COVID-19 laboratories in Nigeria. The dataset has been processed using the standard of the FAIR data principle which encourages its

© 2020 The Author(s).

Keywords: COVID-19 cases per state; COVID-19 laboratories; Economy; Healthcare facilities; NCDC tweets; Nigeria states budget; Population; Time series

Conflict of interest statement

This research is supported by Data Science Nigeria (DSN), 174b, Muritala Mohammed way, Yaba, Lagos, Nigeria, https://www.datasciencenigeria.org.

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