COVID-19 South Korea

Public line list and summaries of the COVID-19 outbreak in South Korea. Translated and transcribed by Sang Woo Park.

Sources:

• KCDC press release: https://www.cdc.go.kr/board/board.es?mid=a20501000000&bid=0015
• Official Website of the Seoul Metropolitan City Government: http://news.seoul.go.kr/welfare/archives/513105
• Official Website of the Busan Metropolitan City Government: http://www.busan.go.kr/corona/index.jsp
• Official Blog of Daegu Metropolitan City Government: https://blog.naver.com/daegu_news
• Official Website of the Gwangju Metropolitan City Government: https://www.gwangju.go.kr/
• Official Website of the Ulsan Metropolitan City Government: https://www.ulsan.go.kr
• Official Website of Gyeonggi Province Government: https://gnews.gg.go.kr/news/gongbo_main.do?s_code=S017&b_code=BO01&type_m=main

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Spreadsheet

Google sheets: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1nKRkOwnGV7RgsMnsYE6l96u4xxl3ZaNiTluPKEPaWm8/edit?usp=sharing

Regional reports: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1TqawYd4GRok9NznY9i1xpCjkTwLwk6nd16c_Jwnh1nw/edit?usp=sharing

Last updated at 3:14 PM EST May 17, 2020

• Sheets 2, 3, 5 and 8 are up to date. Other sheets haven't been updated or the KCDC stopped providing related information in their press release.

Sheet 1: Line list

• case: case identifier
• hospital_city: Hospital location (city)
• lon: Hospital location (longitude)
• lat: Hospital location (latitude)
• nationality: nationality
• ncontact: number of contactees
• nquaratine: number of contactees that are under quarantine
• age: age
• year_of_birth: year of birth
• sex: sex
• date_contact_min: the first date on which a patient could have been infected (e.g., after their infectors were imported, etc.)
• date_contact_max: the last date on which a patient could have been infected (e.g., before symptom onset, before self-quarantine, before their infectors were confirmed to be infected, etc.)
• date_import: date of import
• date_onset: date of symptom onset
• date_onset_min: the first date on which a patient could have had onset of symptoms
• date_onset_min: the last date on which a patient could have had onset of symptoms
• date_hospitalized: date hospitalized
• date_self_qurantine: the first date of self-quarantine
• date_home_before_quarantine: date on which a patient stayed home all day before they were quarantined; KCDC uses 'stayed home all day' with 'self-quarantine' interchangably in some cases.
• date_confirm: date confirmed
• date_rehospitalized: date re-hospitalized (case 25 was re-confirmed after being discharged)
• date_report: date reported (when date confirmed is unavailable; likely to have been confirmed on the same day or a day before)
• source: sources of infection
• import_source: sources of importation
• date_discharged: date on which a patient is discharched
• symptoms: symptoms reported prior to confirmation
• preexisting_conditions: preexisting conditions prior to infection
• KCDC_no: article number on the KCDC website
• date_last_accessed: date on which articles were last accessed and the information was modified
• youtube: links to the official press release video with Q&A session; sometimes contains more information than the KCDC website
• time: Youtube time stamp

Sheet 2: Cumulative number of cases based on the daily press release

• date_report: date reported
• time_report: time reported
• total: total number of tests
• positive: cumulative number of reported positive cases (different from confirmed cases)
• negative: cumulative number of reported negative cases

Sheet 3: Reported number of confirmed cases by geographic region

• Based on the reported regions rather than residential regions; numbers may be subject to change

Sheet 4: Important dates

• date: date
• event: event
• note: miscellaneous notes
• KCDC_no: article number on the KCDC website

Sheet 5: Cumulative number of cases by age group

Sheet 6: Confirmed death

Sheet 7: Community

• Cumulative incidence time series stratified by community (for sufficiently large communities)

Sheet 8: Cumulative deaths

• Cumulative number of deaths by age group