Reads in subnational data for New Zealand to calculate most recent estimate of per capita active COVID-19 cases. Use with LoadData() is recommended.
LoadNewZealand()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 Repository by the Institute of Environmental Science and Research: https://github.com/ESR-NZ/NZ_COVID19_Data/ Institute for Environmental Science and Research, New Zealand COVID19 Dashboard. https://nzcoviddashboard.esr.cri.nz/ (2020).
Jefferies, Sarah, et al. "COVID-19 in New Zealand and the impact of the national response: a descriptive epidemiological study." The Lancet Public Health 5.11 (2020): e612-e623.
NewZealand <- LoadNewZealand()