This is a Python script that scrapes the latest official data regarding the COVID-19 pandemic in Romania from the datelazi.ro website via the JSON interface. The script computes the daily changes for the total number of confirmed positive cases, total number of deaths and total number of cured patients.
The script also computes the daily changes for the total number of confirmed positive cases
by age group (labeled distributionByAge) and by county (labeled countyInfectionsNumbers).
The data is then exported in a CSV file (separator = ,) with a header first row (the age groups
are prefixed with age: age0-9, age9-19, etc. and the county numbers are prefixed with
county: countyAB, countyAR, etc.) and with the subsequent rows containing the computed data.
The dates, as exported in the CSV file, are formatted in the same way as in the original JSON file,
namely: YYYY-mm-dd or %Y-%m-%d (for strftime()). The dayNumber column was added in a later commit
and is the 1-based day index since the historical record (March 17th!, not the first day of the pandemic in România).
In this numbering scheme March 17th is dayNumber 1, March 18th is dayNumber 2 and so on.
Simply run the python script. If the requisite files and folders are not present, they will be automatically created
and if the local JSON file is out-of-date it will be automatically updated by the script. The output data will be
placed in the data/latestData.csv file.
If you just want to append the day's values to the already existing CSV file simply use the --append flag.
./parse.py --append when calling the script, omitting the flag will default to CSV overwrite mode.
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The number of confirmed cases for the start date of the data (17-03-2020) is NOT the daily changes in cases for the day, it is the total cases up to that day, so the total number of confirmed cases is correct (when computing the sum up to the present day).
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For data before 2020-04-03 (April 3rd, 2020), where countyInfectionsNumbers are not available, the values for the county columns are padded with 0 in order to keep the number of values per row constant.
- GCS = Grupul de Comunicare Strategică
- 2020-02-26 (February 2nd, 2020) was the day with the first confirmed case of COVID-19 in Romania.
- The epidemiological data is available via the official JSON with a historical record that dates back to March 17th.
- Another indicator that is tracked and that is available on the GCS website is the number of positive asymptomatic discharged patients. This indicator is not available via the JSON interface.
The plotter.py is a work in progress and is NOT meant to be used!
This file requires that the matplotlib module be installed.