disease.sh COVID-19: Variants API

(COVID-19 data from The European Surveillance System -TESSy, provided by [Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain and Sweden] https://www.ecdc.europa.eu and released by ECDC updated every week)

Operations 2

GET /v3/covid-19/variants/countries/ Get a list of supported countries for ECDC specific data
GET /v3/covid-19/variants/countries/{country} Get COVID-19 ECDC reported data for a specific country

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OpenAPI Specification

disease-sh-covid-19-variants-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑
openapi: 3.2.0
info:
  version: 3.0.0
  title: 'disease.sh Docs - An open API for disease-related statistics COVID-19: Apple COVID-19: Variants API'
  description: Third Party API for reliable global disease information
  license:
    name: GNU V3
    url: https://github.com/disease-sh/API/blob/master/LICENSE
servers:
- url: https://disease.sh/v3
  description: Base URL declared by the provider in apis.yml (roadmap#122).
host: disease.sh
basePath: /
schemes:
- https
- http
consumes:
- application/json
produces:
- application/json
tags:
- name: 'COVID-19: Variants'
  description: (COVID-19 data from The European Surveillance System -TESSy, provided by [Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain and Sweden]  https://www.ecdc.europa.eu and released by ECDC updated every week)
paths:
  /v3/covid-19/variants/countries/:
    get:
      tags:
      - 'COVID-19: Variants'
      summary: Get a list of supported countries for ECDC specific data
      description: Returns a list of supported country names
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Status Ok
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/variantsECDC'
  /v3/covid-19/variants/countries/{country}:
    get:
      tags:
      - 'COVID-19: Variants'
      parameters:
      - name: country
        in: path
        required: true
        description: A valid country name from the /v3/covid-19/variants/countries/ endpoint
        type: string
      - name: allowNull
        in: query
        enum:
        - 'true'
        - 'false'
        - '1'
        - '0'
        description: By default, if a value is missing, it is returned as 0. This allows nulls to be returned
        type: string
      summary: Get COVID-19 ECDC reported data for a specific country
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Status Ok
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/variantsCountriesECDC'
components:
  schemas:
    variantsECDC:
      type: array
      items:
        type: string
    variantsCountriesECDC:
      type: array
      items:
        type: object
        properties:
          updated:
            type: number
            format: date
          country:
            type: string
          yearWeek:
            type: string
          source:
            type: string
          newCases:
            type: number
          numberSequenced:
            type: number
          percentSequenced:
            type: number
          validDenominator:
            type: string
          variant:
            type: string
          numberDetectionsVariant:
            type: number
          numberSequencedKnownVariant:
            type: number
          percentVariant:
            type: number
externalDocs:
  description: Find out more about this API
  url: https://github.com/disease-sh/API