Covid19ksa.com was created to act as a single multi-lingual resource to track covid19 spread in Saudi Arabia. The project started out at a time when the only available resource for covid19 case spread data in the Kingdom was the Ministry of Health’s daily press conference and underlying tweets. That is, until covid19.moh.gov.sa - the country’s official arcGIS dashboard and singular resource for case data -, became available. The dashboard works well as a quick view to see total city-by-city case progression, but had a set of important deficiencies, namely:

The inability to easily view Today’s Update. This includes change in deaths, recoveries, and infected cases per city.
The inability to change dashboard language beyond Arabic and English. This is important, since as many as 80% of those infected in the Kingdom come from outside the country.

Covid19ksa was built to counteract these deficiencies.

We felt like this website has run its course, and has provided information for the earliest period of the pandemic spread in the Kingdom. The website was discontinued on June 30th, 2020.

Big thank you to Nawaf Alnaji and Mohammed Alawami, without whom the website would not have been possible. Big thank you to Carto for providing software via the Carto COVID19 Grants.