diff --git a/webCovidPortal/requirements.txt b/webCovidPortal/requirements.txt
index 0604213..76776bf 100644
--- a/webCovidPortal/requirements.txt
+++ b/webCovidPortal/requirements.txt
@@ -7,6 +7,6 @@ djangorestframework==3.9.2
 djangorestframework-jwt==1.11.0
 docutils==0.14
 mysqlclient==1.4.2.post1
-numpy==1.16.2
+numpy==1.22.0
 numpydoc==0.8.0
 pandas==1.1.0