Overview
Sciensano, the Belgian institute for health, is responsible for the epidemiological follow-up of the COVID-19 epidemic in collaboration with its partners and other healthcare actors. The data collected can provide insight into the dynamics of the epidemic, help to anticipate different scenarios and to elaborate possible measures to curb the spread of the virus.
From 31 March, Sciensano will make a set of data available to interested parties on a daily basis. This information is a support for decision making in the control of the epidemic.
The following datasets are published as open data:
- confirmed cases by date, age, sex and province
- confirmed cases by date and municipality
- cumulative number of confirmed cases by municipality
- hospitalizations by date and provinces
- mortality by date, age, sex, and province
- total number of tests performed by date
A description of the variables is available in the codebook. (Version: 2022-09-19)
Demographics
Dataset
Since 31 March 2020, Sciensano has made daily updated data publicly available. Obtaining access to additional data other than these public (open) data is subject to at least[1]:
- Compliance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the Belgian Law of 30 July 2018 on the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data (including combined datasets consisting partly of personal data and partly of non-personal data);
- Obtaining authorisation of the Information Security Committee, if health data are concerned[2].
Contact
Rue Juliette Wytsman, 14
1050 Brussels