Research Guides: COVID-19 Pandemic Information Resources Guide: Data Resources

Tracking the Coronavirus

CBC: Where is the coronavirus pandemic getting better or worse?

Check back daily to see if cases and deaths are trending up or down in your region. There's also new data on vaccines, so you can track how many people have been vaccinated in your area.

Select your province or territory below to get started.

This page updates daily after 7:00 p.m. ET/4:00 p.m. PT. Vaccine data updates throughout the day.

National Data Resources

Guide to COVID-19 Time Series Data (Preliminary) / Données de série chronologique COVID-19 (Version préliminarie) (Google Sheets)
This guide focuses primarily on government-collected data sources on testing, incidence and outcomes of COVID 19 cases in Canada and includes selective coverage of international sources. Data were selected based on good source data and those with known and rigourous data collection methods. It is not meant to be a comprehensive list of sources related to COVID 19 (e.g., impacts, or secondary uses of data).
Authors: Susan Mowers, University of Ottawa, and Alexandra Cooper, Queen's University.
Statistics Canada - COVID-19 A data perspective
A portal for COVID-19 resources including the latest data and publications
- COVID-19 epidemiological reports
- Canadian Economic Dashboard and COVID-19
- Canadian Perspective Survey
  Crowdsourced data on the current economic and social situation, as well as people's physical and mental health
- Labour Force Survey in Brief
Government of Canada
Public Health Agency of Canada
- Interactive case map and data summary (summary data)
COVID-19 Canada Health Regions Shapefile
This shapefile represents the boundaries developed for use when aggregating and reporting cases during the COVID-19 pandemic. The standard health regions were used except for British Columbia, Saskatchewan, and Nova Scotia, where areas were developed specifically for COVID-19 reporting.

Data was built by Prof. Jack Lucas the the University of Calgary, using the Federal data shapefiles, as well as files from the Provinces of British Columbia, Saskatchewan, and Nova Scotia.

Shapefile access:
- Scholars Portal Dataverse
- Scholars Geoportal

Non-Governmental resources
- COVID-19 in Canada Dashboard
  National, provincial and territorial data (-1 day) on reported cases, confirmed and presumptive cases, recovered, died, and those tested. CSV for each data file is available from GitHub (linked from the dashboard). Created by Jean-Paul R. Soucy and Isha Berry, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto.
- CIHI (Canadian Institute for Health Informaiton) Resources
- COVID-19 Canada
  - GIS hub provided by ESRI Canada