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Coronavirus in the UK vs Open Disease

Coronavirus in the UK

The UK Health Security Agency's public data API — successor to the original coronavirus.data.gov.uk service, which now 301-redirects to ukhsa-dashboard.data.gov.uk — serving case, death, hospitalisation, and vaccination figures for COVID-19 alongside other respiratory illnesses like flu and RSV, broken down by UK nation, region, and local authority. No API key is required; the dataset is organised into browsable themes, sub-themes, and topics from the root JSON endpoint, with COVID-19 confirmed live under infectious_disease/respiratory. The stored url is corrected to the current docs entry point since the old one now redirects here. A live GET against api.ukhsa-dashboard.data.gov.uk returns Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *, resolving the stored 'unknown' cors to 'yes'.

Open Disease

disease.sh aggregates COVID-19, influenza, and general public-health case/vaccination data from Johns Hopkins CSSE, WHO, and other public feeds into a single keyless JSON API, with endpoints scoped by country, US state, or continent plus historical time-series. A live GET against disease.sh/v3/covid-19/all and a live Origin-header probe both return Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *, reconfirming the already-stored 'yes'.

Coronavirus in the UKOpen Disease
AuthenticationNoneNone
Pricingfreefree
FormatsJSONJSON
CORSyesyes
HTTPSYesYes

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