Commentary
Leveraging GIS and spatial analysis for informed decision-making in COVID-19 pandemic

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Highlights

  • Geographic Information System (GIS) techniques are widely used across scientific disciplines, including public health since the mid-1960s.

  • GIS has been playing a critical role in understanding the spatial clustering and transmission trend of the ongoing COVID-19.

  • The Johns Hopkins University created a near-real-time GIS-based COVID-19 case tracking and documentation mechanism.

  • Applications of GIS in COVID-19 related studies were focused on mapping the cases on different administrative units.

  • GIS could be used to predict not only the confirmed case numbers but also specific locations where the outbreak would happen with a higher statistical precision.

Keywords

GIS
Spatial analysis
COVID-19
Coronavirus
Telemedicine

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