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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 technologies are supporting the global fight against outbreaks and epidemics
- Source :
- International Journal of Health Geographics, International journal of health geographics, 19:8, International Journal of Health Geographics, Vol 19, Iss 1, Pp 1-12 (2020)
- Publication Year :
- 2020
- Publisher :
- BioMed Central, 2020.
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Abstract
- 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.
- Subjects :
- Geographic information system
General Computer Science
Health geography
Population
Pneumonia, Viral
Disease
010501 environmental sciences
medicine.disease_cause
lcsh:Computer applications to medicine. Medical informatics
01 natural sciences
03 medical and health sciences
Betacoronavirus
0302 clinical medicine
Pandemic
medicine
Humans
030212 general & internal medicine
education
Pandemics
0105 earth and related environmental sciences
Coronavirus
education.field_of_study
COVID-19
GIS
SARS-CoV-2
business.industry
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
Outbreak
General Business, Management and Accounting
Geography
Editorial
Infectious disease (medical specialty)
Geographic Information Systems
lcsh:R858-859.7
Public Health
business
Coronavirus Infections
Cartography
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 1476072X
- Volume :
- 19
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- International Journal of Health Geographics
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....cdad09863eeb8ea232cfbbb60ffb13d9