Reads in subnational data for Belgium to calculate most recent estimate of per capita active COVID-19 cases. Use with LoadData() is recommended.
LoadBelgium()A simple feature returning the date of most recent data (DateReport), a unique region code (geoid), the region name (RegionName) and country name (Country), the number of active cases per capita (pInf) and the regions geometry (geometry).
Data was obtained from Sciensano, the Belgian institute for health: https://epistat.wiv-isp.be/covid/. We note that this function needs to read files corresponding to daily reports (some of which may not exist),
if (FALSE) {
Belgium <- LoadBelgium()
}