BAG Official website data

[AlexBobAlex]

Hello ! First thank you for your precious work !

I wonder why you don't seem to use data publish by bag on total number of cases here: https://www.bag.admin.ch/bag/de/home/krankheiten/ausbrueche-epidemien-pandemien/aktuelle-ausbrueche-epidemien/novel-cov/situation-schweiz-und-international.html

We could download from this file that seems to be the source of tweets graphs : https://www.bag.admin.ch/dam/bag/de/dokumente/mt/k-und-i/aktuelle-ausbrueche-pandemien/2019-nCoV/covid-19-datengrundlage-lagebericht.xlsx.download.xlsx/200325_Datengrundlage_Grafiken_COVID-19-Bericht.xlsx

I notice though that numbers are quite different from this dataset. But maybe it could act as minimum fallback or fill the historical gaps.

Tell me your opinion on that and if you're interested I could create a PR to have a script downloading it in your format !

[baryluk]

FYI. If you care, I have archive of the official pdfs and xlsx here:

https://www.functor.xyz/covid_19b/

https://www.functor.xyz/covid_19b/unique_pdf.txt https://www.functor.xyz/covid_19b/unique_xlsx.txt

Unfortunately I don't have pdfs going earlier than that. They might be somewhere in web.archive.org tho.

[zdavatz]

I am archiving the XLSX here: https://github.com/zdavatz/covid19_ch/tree/master/bag_xlsx