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Covid-19 India vs LAPIS
A volunteer-run archive of India's COVID-19 statistics — state- and district-level confirmed/recovered/deceased counts and vaccination totals — served as JSON (v4 endpoints) and CSV from data.covid19india.org. The original api.covid19india.org project and its per-request JSON routes were deprecated in August 2021 in favor of these v4/CSV endpoints; the data itself is a static historical snapshot, last modified October 2025 per the response headers, not a live daily feed. A live GET against data.covid19india.org returns no Access-Control-Allow-Origin header, resolving the stored 'unknown' cors to 'no'.
LAPIS is the open, keyless REST API behind covSPECTRUM, serving aggregated counts, sequence details, and mutation queries over SARS-CoV-2 genomic data drawn from public sources like GenBank and Nextstrain, documented via an OpenAPI v2 endpoint at lapis.cov-spectrum.org. The frontend's old ETH Zurich domain, cov-spectrum.ethz.ch, now 301-redirects permanently to cov-spectrum.org — 'url' corrected to the live domain. A live GET against lapis.cov-spectrum.org/open/v2/ returns Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *, reconfirming the stored 'yes' cors.
| Covid-19 India | LAPIS | |
|---|---|---|
| Authentication | None | None |
| Pricing | free | free |
| Formats | JSON, CSV | JSON |
| CORS | no | yes |
| HTTPS | Yes | Yes |
LAPIS supports CORS, while Covid-19 India doesn't — pick LAPIS for direct browser calls.