Covid Variants
Covid Variants Across World (alpha, beta, gamma and other types)
@kaggle.pavan9065_covid_variants
About this Dataset
Covid Variants
Data on SARS-CoV-2
The data is sourced from GISAID, via CoVariants, and we make it available as a CSV 💾.
Fields
| Column field | Description |
|---|---|
| location | Name of the country (or region within a country). |
| date | Date of the observation. |
| variant | Variant name. We use the WHO label for Variants of Concern (VoC) and Variants of Interest (VoI), and Pango Lineage for the others. Details on variants included can be found here. |
| num_sequences | Number of sequenced samples that fall into the category variant. |
| perc_sequences | Percentage of the sequenced samples that fall into the category variant. |
| num_sequences_total | The total number of samples sequenced in the last two weeks. |
Special variant values
others: All variants/mutations other than the ones specified (i.e. not listed in this table).
non_who: All variants/mutations without WHO label.
Note that non_who includes others and other variants.
Example
|location |date |variant |num_sequences |perc_sequences| numsequencestotal|
| --- | --- |
|United Kingdom |2021-03-08| B.1.160 |4.0| 0.01 |29598|
|United Kingdom |2021-03-08 |B.1.258| 17.0 |0.06 |29598|