Geographical tracking and mapping of coronavirus disease COVID-19/severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) epidemic and associated events around the world: how 21st century GIS…
By Maged N. Kamel Boulos, E. Geraghty. International Journal of Health Geographics, 2020
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In December 2019, a new virus (initially called ‘Novel Coronavirus 2019-nCoV’ and later renamed to SARS-CoV-2) causing severe acute respiratory syndrome (coronavirus disease COVID-19) emerged in Wuhan, Hubei Province, China, and rapidly spread to other parts of China and other countries around the world, despite China’s massive efforts to contain the disease within Hubei. As with the original SARS-CoV epidemic of 2002/2003 and with seasonal influenza, geographic information systems and methods, including, among other application possibilities, online real-or near-real-time mapping of disease cases and of social media reactions to disease spread, predictive risk mapping using population travel data, and tracing and mapping super-spreader trajectories and contacts across space and time, are proving indispensable for timely and effective epidemic monitoring and response. This paper offers pointers to, and describes, a range of practical online/mobile GIS and mapping dashboards and applications for tracking the 2019/2020 coronavirus epidemic and associated events as they unfold around the world. Some of these dashboards and applications are receiving data updates in near-real-time (at the time of writing), and one of them is meant for individual users (in China) to check if the app user has had any close contact with a person confirmed or suspected to have been infected with SARS-CoV-2 in the recent past. We also discuss additional ways GIS can support the fight against infectious disease outbreaks and epidemics.
Subfields: Epidemiology, Information Systems, Modeling and Simulation
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- Investigating the emerging COVID-19 research trends in the field of business and management: A bibliometric analysis approach (2020, background): “This global epidemic has impacted tourist destinations, leading hotels, restaurants and bars, theme parks, museums, trade fairs, and cultural and sports events to be deserted (Boulos & Geraghty, 2020).”
- Spatial analysis and GIS in the study of COVID-19. A review (2020, background): “Boulos and Geraghty (2020) reviewed the different web mapping applications on COVID-19 available in January and February.”
- Security analysis of drones systems: Attacks, limitations, and recommendations (2020, neutral): “In addition, drones were used as a flying delivery mean to supply isolated/infected patients with goods (i.e food and medicine), and also as a flying mean to transport testing samples at a faster pace, reducing human interaction [59] .”