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 findability, accessibility, interoperability, and reusability and will be relevant to researchers in different fields such as Data Science, Epidemiology, Earth Modelling, and Health Informatics.
翻译:2019年的冠状病毒疾病(COVID-19)是一种正在尼日利亚和全世界肆虐的大流行病,该数据条款提供了尼日利亚疾病控制中心(NCDC)在2020年2月27日至2020年9月29日期间在线报告的COVID-19每日更新数据集,这些数据是通过网络从不同来源收集而获得的,其中包括一些经济变量,如尼日利亚2020年的每个国家预算、人口估计、保健设施和COVID-19实验室,数据集是使用FAIR数据原则的标准处理的,该标准鼓励其可查找性、可获取性、互操作性和可重复性,并将与数据科学、流行病学、地球建模和健康信息学等不同领域的研究人员相关。