VACCINATIONS: how to add new countries or entries to our data

[edomt]

This is a centralized issue to let our users suggest sources to add new countries, or new entries for existing countries, to our data on COVID-19 vaccinations.

• We only take into account numbers that are announced by official sources (head of government, ministry of health, public health agencies, public officials in charge of the vaccination campaign, etc.).
• We only count administered doses, not distributed doses.
• We will not include participants in the vaccine arm of clinical trials, as this data is not available for many of the hundreds of trials currently taking place.
• Our current sources are visible in vaccinations/locations.csv.

For countries that are already included in our data, most of our imports are automated and will collect the latest number when we update our dataset. If you don't see the latest number appear in our data, please wait at least 24 hours before suggesting it here.

Note that contributions via pull requests are not possible due to the way our data pipeline is set up.

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[EladHeller]

Minister of Health of Israel:
On December 27, approximately 98,900 people were vaccinated in Israel.
In total, about 379,000 people were vaccinated in Israel.
https://twitter.com/YuliEdelstein/status/1343423578205794305

[artdgn]

In case some additional sources can be found from https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/covid-vaccine-tracker-global-distribution/ - it seems to have very similar data, except Russia is assigned an order of magnitude more vaccinations (440K) compared to your data (55K).

[edomt]

@artdgn Thanks! We know about that 440k estimate from Bloomberg for Russia, but we can't identify a source that would confirm this. In fact, we realized a few days ago that the total number of doses administered so far in Russia was much lower than previously thought: https://twitter.com/redouad/status/1343544952052133888

[philiprusinov]

Status update for Bulgaria, 30-12-2020
3844 already vaccinated. Information were presented by ministry of health at today's government meeting.
https://www.gov.bg/bg/prestsentar/novini/pravitelstvoto-otpusna-oshte-125-miliona-leva-za-vaksini-sreshtu-COVID%E2%80%9319

[philiprusinov]

Hello,
Official statistic for vaccination in Bulgaria is available now. Please check the table on the right, on the government COVID portal. It seem this could be automated. For now there are 4608 vaccinated.
Best regards,

https://coronavirus.bg/bg/statistika

[edomt]

Thank you @philiprusinov, that's very useful! We'll be able to automate the collection with this.