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Robert Koch-Institut Open Data

German public health surveillance: SARS-CoV-2 cases, AMELAG wastewater monitoring, and DIVI ICU bed capacity from RKI.

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About

The Robert Koch-Institut (RKI) is Germany's federal public health institute responsible for disease control and prevention. Through its open data initiative hosted on GitHub and Zenodo, the RKI distributes machine-readable surveillance datasets covering notifiable infectious diseases (SurvNet), SARS-CoV-2 case incidence, the AMELAG national wastewater surveillance project, DIVI intensive care register bed occupancy, and syndromic emergency department monitoring.

Through Fibric, an operator references German federal state and district (Landkreis) epidemiological trends and wastewater pathogen levels, proposing proactive workforce staffing reserves, indoor air quality checks, and occupational health guidance across German facilities.

This is a reference listing. It documents what Fibric would read from Robert Koch-Institut Open Data and what it could propose, based on the publisher's published interfaces. Fibric builds it under a managed deployment when you request it; selecting it here installs nothing.

Inputs

  • German district (Landkreis) and federal state (Bundesland) case counts and 7-day incidence rates for notifiable infections
  • AMELAG wastewater pathogen monitoring viral load time-series across participating German municipal treatment utilities
  • DIVI intensive care register metrics tracking occupied and free adult and pediatric ICU beds in German hospitals
  • Syndromic surveillance data from emergency departments monitoring acute respiratory and gastrointestinal complaints
  • Automated GitHub repository releases publishing version-controlled CSV, TSV, and JSON tables under CC BY 4.0

Proposed actions

Read-only. This feed informs operators; it changes nothing.

Proposed actions are target capabilities. Every action runs propose-first and needs a validated deployment and the appropriate permissions.

What you can build

  • Monitor German wastewater viral trends for shift planning

    Track AMELAG municipal wastewater pathogen loads across German industrial regions, proposing flexible shift buffers and temporary staffing adjustments prior to absenteeism waves.

    With Shift Coverage, Open Shift Offer

  • Tune facility ventilation setpoints during high regional incidence

    Evaluate district-level 7-day incidence rates against German office and logistics centers, proposing increased air exchange cycles and filter checks when transmission escalates.

    With CO2 Ventilation, Filter Change

Requirements

  • HTTP client or Git workflow to ingest daily and weekly CSV/JSON dataset updates from GitHub
  • German geographic code mapping linking Federal District Keys (Amtlicher Gemeindeschlüssel / AGS) to corporate locations
  • Attribution acknowledging the Robert Koch-Institut under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International terms
Authentication
None. RKI open data repositories on GitHub are publicly accessible via standard Git or HTTPS downloads without authentication or API tokens.

Limits

  • Notification data reflects local health office (Gesundheitsamt) transmission timelines with minor weekend reporting delays
  • Primary distribution is structured as flat GitHub repository files rather than a queryable dynamic SQL endpoint
  • Geographic scope is strictly restricted to the Federal Republic of Germany

Access and pricing

Reference listing. Public feed access is separate from Fibric integration. If you request this feed, your quote covers the build, usage, and support.

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Questions and answers

What datasets does the Robert Koch-Institut publish on GitHub?
RKI publishes SARS-CoV-2 cases, AMELAG wastewater surveillance, DIVI intensive care capacity, vaccination rates, and emergency department surveillance.
How frequently are RKI GitHub datasets refreshed?
Most surveillance datasets are updated daily on weekdays, while aggregated surveillance reports and wastewater summaries update on weekly schedules.
What license governs RKI open data?
Data is published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license, allowing unrestricted commercial reuse with attribution.
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