Media Report based Non Virus Deaths
There are many deaths (Suicide, due to lockdown, lathicharge, hunger ,during migration etc) reported from the field which are related to COVID-19 disease but are not attributed to virus. Community (see credits) has collected them and organized them.
Before using this data, please note the following:
- This is based on media reports
- We only archive, scrape and parse the data
Credits
- Kanika Researcher and Activist
- Aman Assistant Professor of legal practice at Jindal Global School of Law
- Krushna PhD student at Syracuse University
- Thejesh GN Public Interest Technologist, DataMeet
Project Visual
The main project visualization is at Non Virus Deaths
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Data
Raw Data
We have semi parsed data availabe as CSV.
Web Archive of media
Individual articles are archived automatically on archive.org.
Parsed Data
Parsed data in the form of JSON is availabe inside data. We update once a day. It has data since 2020-03-25
{
"id": "2020-03-25|non_virus_deaths|17",
"key": "2020-03-25|non_virus_deaths|17",
"value": {
"_id": "2020-03-25|non_virus_deaths|17",
"_rev": "3-3381b76df61bff8c3b28276a1cffad27",
"type": "non_virus_deaths",
"location": "Rasingapuram",
"district": "Theni",
"state": "KL",
"incident_date": "2020-03-24",
"deaths": 4,
"reason": [
"Forest fire",
"Roadblock"
],
"source_date": "2020-03-25",
"source_link": "https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/tamil-nadu/death-toll-rises-to-4-in-theni-forest-fire-tragedy/article31160605.ece and https://www.thenewsminute.com/article/3-women-and-one-year-old-child-die-theni-forest-fire-121088",
"source": "www.thehindu.com"
}
}
deaths : no of deaths reported in this specific incident report
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License
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