Hello Abongile,

GIS is one of the best and efficient tools that helps in managing large scale datasets. For instance, in the current pandemic situation, GIS can help in creating large scale information by providing the number of people affected at different locations. Further, I can be used for spatial interpolation of these datasets. It helped in making COVID-19 Map created by Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center. The link is here:

https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html

Cheers,

GIS helps epidemiologists to map disease occurrence against multiple parameters including demographics, the environment, geographies and past occurrences to understand the origin of outbreaks, its spread pattern and its intensity to implement control, preventive, and surveillance measures. Public health agencies, policy makers and administrators need GIS to understand outbreak patterns in real-time to identify at-risk populations and plan targeted intervention such as evaluate available facilities or increase healthcare capacities. In addition, there is a need for effective communication among other supporting agencies and citizens to ensure a coordinated response.

With location as a common denominator, Geographic Information System (GIS) technology provides the capability to enable this common operating picture for multi-agency collaboration. Using GIS capabilities such as spatial analytics, mapping, and location intelligence, health officials and government agencies can map confirmed and active cases, fatalities, and recoveries to identify where COVID-19 infections have occurred.

GIS can help in mapping of the pandemic and its risk/ vulnerability. Perhaps proactive approach to containment and control is not far fetched

QGIS could do the egister the victims who are infected and the people it has infected, thus preventing future infections.

One application is to use the point data available of infections or deaths and create a heat map or Kernel Density map that would quickly pinpoint areas of high disease presence and then implement containment measures. The other application would be to run a GWR (Geograhically weighted regression) as a function of the independent variables such as age, pre-existing conditions, gender, ethnicity, etc and characterize the disease prevelance and evolution

GIS is an important tool to fight aganist the coron virus pandemics. Using GIS, it is easy to map the distribution of corono virus pandemics using point data for efective intervention. It gives the fast information for those who want to deliver the preventive measures by reducing time and energy. The information on GIS data basis help Peoples to easily understand and prevent the viral distribution

GIS is the most effective tool for explain spatial information to large number of people that understand both technical and nontechnical personnel. It is very much easy to accumulate huge data set over the world and gives clear concept of distribution, abundance as well as invasion pattern of COVID-19 Virus.

If WHO or other responsible organisations create hub for the GIS data which collect from over the world, that will be clarified and illustrate the new infection and hotspot of the current situation. It might be help to prevent future pendamic situation.

This map was developed by gis in Brazil. He describes the phases of the covid for the State of São Paulo but it is important to add all the suggestions of colleagues to improve the analysis.

Definitely Yes

Spatial mapping of number of cases, mortality rates, cured cases etc in different colors brings awareness to all the people pictorially. It gives a vivid idea to make and implement different medical plans.

Yes, it is. It is important to understand how the city is emerging from social isolation and to determine the opening of trade. If they have little occurence of covid-19 case, the commercial could be opened.

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