Description: Course of the cholera epidemic in Malawi. The data is resolved at a weekly level and contains information on the number of cases and deaths recorded in each district.
Format
A data frame with 1886 rows and 8 variables
- epi_week
Epidemiological week of the calendar year (1 to 52)
- week_start
Week number counted from the first week in the data (week 1 starts on 2022-02-28)
- week
Start date (Monday) of the week
- cases
No. of recorded cases
- deaths
No. of recorded deaths
- c_cases
Cumulative cases since the start of the epidemic
- c_deaths
Cumulative deaths since the start of the epidemic
- district
District of Malawi for which the record is collected