There are many aspects that geography deals with regarding COVID-19.

As a physical geographer, we may track the changes and patterns of some satellite-derived air quality variables such as NO2 above cities.

For human geography, mapping COVID-19 causes and analyze them spatially is one of the clearer roles.

Hope this gives an idea about some roles.

This is just my opinion, but I think this is an important question that I would like more people to better understand how geographic thinking could be helpful.

One way to think of Geography is that it is the study of, and science of, why things are where they are, and that can be extrapolated to understanding context, patterns of diffusion, and much more. Coronavirus and COVID-19 have impacted various places and the people who live and work in those locations differently. That means there is geographic variation in the spread of COVID-19.

Some reasons are more obvious and generic, such as places with high population seeing more cases sooner than places with low population densities. Because COVID-19 is spread from person to person it is important to know the locations where more people come into close contact with one another for longer periods of time - this is where the anonymized cell phone data has become useful, though it is hardly perfect as there are many situations of safe proximity, such as a wall or window between two people.

In the early months, we theorized that large cities to be collection points because they draw people for many reasons. Smaller cities are less of a draw, often passed through for flown over, so they have less risk new cases. Small towns that people do not often travel through have even less risk. However, since then, we have seen COVID-19 come to most places, whether it was via highways or airways is now moot.

When we have relatively detailed data about where new cases have been confirmed to occur, we can begin to define where the communities are located when it comes to the idea of "community spread". Realistically it is multiple communities that overlap and connect via one or more individuals. The means by which individuals move within and between the locations that put them into contact with others is intensely geographic. There are popular routes and nodes where people meet and contract the virus (parties, nursing homes, meat packing plants, prisons, all generically called "congregate settings" by public health experts).

There are also barriers, i.e, things that stop or restrict the flow of people and thus, spread. Geographers have long been interested in the nature of barriers in terms of understanding why things are different from place to place. Early on, the Rocky Mountains appeared to be a barrier, because fewer people cross over them than say the Hudson River (which isn't as much of a barrier these days). For some virus, but apparently not so much for coronavirus, climate and weather impact our ability to spread the virus.

At a micro level, i.e., buildings and facilities, understanding how others (potential carriers) interact with people who may not even be able to wash their own hands without assistance. Anecdotally, we learned of people who work part-time in several nursing homes and early on did not know they were carrying the virus to each workplace. Thus, the routes between nursing homes, and the places along those routes such as restaurants, ATMs, grocery stores, etc., become important for potentially having higher risk.

Last, there are also traits, i.e., environmental and genetic factors produce differences between people in different places around the world. These differences take the form of concentrations of different blood types, gut bacteria populations and diversity, and social habits, to name a few. All of these may play a role in inhibiting or encouraging the spread of a virus.

The locations and connections between everyone and everything, i.e., geography, matters when it comes to contextualizing where COVID-19 currently, and may soon affect us.

Anywhere there are human-spatial relationships, we'll be there!

On a serious note, I've written three different pieces on Covid, Solid Waste, and Cimate, as a geographer. Perhaps they may give you ideas, or useful framings for your own ideas:

Article Info from the global world-- The source of waste and the end...

Article “We Are Already Sick”: Infectious Waste Management and Inequ...

Article "This is our next problem": Cleaning up from the COVID-19 response

Thank you for the discussion

The Issue and solution of COVID 19 are closely associated with Geography.

Issues:

The spread of COVID (everything is related to everything, near one is related more than the far one).

COVID statistics vary from country to country (determined by population, social-cultural-economic processes etc.)

Even potential vaccines may not be accessible to each and every country. Powerful and rich get faster than the poor and developing countries. However, the first groups of countries are affected more than the later.

Cities (large to small) affected more than the remote villages. I hope, there will be a new indicator of development soon after the COVID as roads and connectivity are one of the indicators.

Solutions:

Remote inaccessible places are safer

Manageable population (definitely associated with policies and actions during the pandemic)

Most importantly, the identification of zones (hot spots of COVID 19) early

Spatial management of people movements (specific markets, restaurants, etc only accessible to specific peoples of the surrounding zones during semi-lockdown), GIS-based mapping etc.

App-based spatial management/movement can be one of the solutions, for example, in Germany (even in India) an app has been working to identify the potential threat zones regarding the COVID patient. Many more....

Thank you very much Dr Kausik Ghosh. I will compile all of your discussion soon after

I consider that the most important is the space-human relationship in real time and how COVID can enter new territories. In order to have a strategy to prevent its spread.

الجغرافيا ترى مالا تراه العلوم الاخرى لان المكان و التفاوت المكاني في انتشار هذا المرض هو من صميم الجغرافيا

Geography is very relevant in the study of Covid 19 pandemic through mapping, showing spatial distribution and spread of the disease and recovery on daily basis

If geography is the science of productive and social space, it is the study of the characteristics of the Earth's surface and the economic, social, political and cultural consequences of its occupation by man. So we have something to contribute, since January 2020, in Brazil and Latin America the debate intensified, there were hundreds of Webinars about Covid-19, I believe in the world too.

There are many aspects that geography deals with regarding COVID-19.

As a physical geographer, we may track the changes and patterns of some satellite-derived air quality variables such as NO2 above cities.

For human geography, mapping COVID-19 causes and analyze them spatially is one of the clearer roles.

Hope this gives an idea about some roles.

Thanks Jasem, Definitely your answer will be consider for further study

Thank you Suresh Krishna Pawar for sharing your questions, we are available for new challenges.

With what has been said about the role of geographical studies.. there is another aspect that population geography can contribute to clarifying the COVID -19 virus, especially studying the age and the number of the males and the females infected .. but this needs accurate statistics.

A geografia tem um papel importante no estudo da difusão da pandemia, visto que é uma ciência que estuda as questões espaciais. A pandemia está diretamente relacionada com as questões espaciais, especialmente no tocante às formas de difusão. No caso, o isolamento social é uma das formas de conter a sua difusão e implica numa análise espacial das áreas urbanas e rurais.

Thanks for answer. Discussion and your suggestions will be consider in forthcoming research article

From my point of view, the relationship between human displacement and the pandemic dispersion is the key in the covid-19 increase. Hence, considering that one of the main topic of geography is the analysis of the interactions in the human space, the geographic component has high relevance.

Thanks Dr V. Solo for an answer. Definitely I will consider your answer in the next.......

If Geography is the study of spatial distribution of phenomenon on the earth surface over time, it has many relevance in study of Covid 19 as it will provide the information on the distribution of the virus on the globe. It will also reveals the physical and human phenomenon that favour/hinder the spread of the virus.