Abstract
Purpose The world has faced various epidemic situations caused by different viruses such as SARS-Cov, MERS-Cov, Ebola and many more during the past few decades, SARS-Cov-2 (COVID-19) is the genetic variant of newly the discovered Coronavirus, which has been believed to spread from China during December 2019, which has created a catastrophic effect for the whole world. In the first quarter of 2020, the virus started to spread to different countries, in addition, the severity of cases, the mortality rate and the recovery rate varied between countries. In the Sultanate of Oman and different parts of the world, the COVID started to spike during the end of March 2020. In this research paper, COVID data for Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries are extracted and analysis has been made based on different parameters. The analysis has been divided into two categories – the first part focuses on the total number of cases, the total number of recoveries and the total number of deaths and comparison has been made for different GCC countries, from these analyses, it gives a clear picture of the days of a particular month, which contributes to the increase of COVID cases. The second part focuses on finding out the indicators that are correlating with the COIVD-19 cases and deaths; it has been found that there is a very strong correlation between the total population and labour force of every GCC country with the corresponding COVID cases and deaths. Design/methodology/approach The entire research steps involved starts with data collection, data pre-processing and data analysis. The analysis has been divided into two categories – the first part focuses on the total number of cases, the total number of recoveries and the total number of deaths and comparisons has been made for different GCC countries. The second part focuses on finding out the indicators that are correlating with COIVD-19 cases and deaths. Findings It has been found that there is a very strong correlation between the total population and labour force of every GCC country with the corresponding COVID cases and deaths. Research limitations/implications The data set considered is limited and can be extended further. Social implications This research paper definitely provides a road map for practice, as this research provides details about the total number of active cases, death based on the days in different GCC countries. It has been observed that during the end of each month and during weekends, the total number of cases increases drastically, so by taking into consideration the governing bodies can impose a lockdown during these spike durations. In addition to it, the citizens and residents should make a practice to avoid or limit their movement during the spike durations, which was analysed by this research work. Originality/value The idea is the own idea and not copied from any other source.
Highlights
Six Coronavirus species are known to cause human diseases, four viruses (229E, OC43, NL63 and HKU1) cause common cold symptoms, which are immuno-competent by individuals based on their body immunity level (Su et al, 2016).The other two SARS-CoV and MERS-CoV are respiratory syndrome, which are linked to fatal illness, which emerged in 2003 and 2012, respectively (Cui et al, 2018)
Analysis of indicators The main idea of this paper is to find out the factors that influence the COVID-19 cases and the deaths occurred
In conclusion, the research team has collected the COVID-19-related data for the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries from 22nd Jan 2020 to 26th July 2020
Summary
Six Coronavirus species are known to cause human diseases, four viruses (229E, OC43, NL63 and HKU1) cause common cold symptoms, which are immuno-competent by individuals based on their body immunity level (Su et al, 2016).The other two SARS-CoV and MERS-CoV are respiratory syndrome, which are linked to fatal illness, which emerged in 2003 and 2012, respectively (Cui et al, 2018). Six Coronavirus species are known to cause human diseases, four viruses (229E, OC43, NL63 and HKU1) cause common cold symptoms, which are immuno-competent by individuals based on their body immunity level (Su et al, 2016). According to the World Health Organization (WHO), the Coronavirus that evolved naturally infected human beings from an animal species, most likely to be a bat. COVID-19 started to spread in the beginning of 2020, which turned to be an epidemic, causing an unexpected critical situation for the complete human society. The precautionary measures and community restrictions have been triggered by all the countries around the world to stop the spreading of this terrific disease. The data used is about the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries, which form the major portion of Arab states of the Persian Gulf. Total area covered by GCC countries are over 1 million square miles with a total population of 54 million people and its gross domestic product (GDP) around $3.464tn (worldpopulationreview.com, 2020)
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