Reads in subnational data for China to calculate most recent estimate of per capita active COVID-19 cases. Use with LoadData() is recommended.
LoadChina()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).
COVID-19 data for first-level administrative divisions in China is aggregated from the National Health Commission of the People’s Republic of China (NHC): http://www.nhc.gov.cn/xcs/yqtb/list_gzbd.shtml and the China CDC (CCDC): http://weekly.chinacdc.cn/news/TrackingtheEpidemic.htm by the COVID-19 Data Repository by the Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at Johns Hopkins University https://github.com/CSSEGISandData/COVID-19/tree/master/csse_covid_19_data.
Dong, E., Du, H., & Gardner, L. (2020). An interactive web-based dashboard to track COVID-19 in real time. The Lancet infectious diseases, 20(5), 533-534.
China <- LoadChina()