COVID-19 Cases, Deaths, and Recoveries by Neighborhood in Rio de Janeiro, 2020

A time-series dataset from the Rio de Janeiro City Hall and Municipal Health Secretariat tracks the cumulative number of confirmed COVID-19 cases, deaths, and recoveries by neighborhood in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The data covers the period from 21 April 2020 until December 2020. It was aggregated from the city's COVID-19 panel and shared under a public domain license.

Use Cases

• Modeling disease spread over time based on cumulative case data by neighborhood.
• Analyzing disparities in COVID-19 outcomes across different city neighborhoods.
• Tracking changes in city-level confirmed cases, deaths, and recoveries over the 2020 pandemic period.

Strengths

• Data is provided at the neighborhood level, allowing for granular spatial analysis within the city.
• The time range is explicitly defined, covering over eight months from April to December 2020.
• Data originates from an official municipal source, the Rio de Janeiro City Hall and Health Secretariat.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for large-scale modeling.
• The description does not specify the update frequency or the exact end date in December 2020.

Provenance

Source

Rio de Janeiro City Hall, Municipal Health Secretariat - Painel COVID-19 Rio

Collection Method

Likely aggregated from municipal public health reporting systems.

Time Range

21 April 2020 to December 2020

Geography

City of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (neighborhood-level)