Abstract
The COVID-19 corona virus has affected 81.9 million people with 1.79 million deaths in the entire world and has transformed into a global pandemic. The disease has effected 10.2 million people in India with about 148K deaths till December 2020. The COVID-19 virus is a highly infectious disease, which mainly spreads through the droplets generated by the cough, sneeze or exhale of an infected person. The disease spreads rapidly in crowded and poorly ventilated places. The virus quickly contaminates on floors and surfaces, people touching their eyes, nose and mouth after their contact with these contaminated surfaces get infected with this viral disease. As there is no cure and a vaccine currently for COVID-19, tracing, testing, tracking and treating are the most efficient tools to combat it. In order to track patients the existing methods implement fall detectors and routers which are effective in tracking patients in smaller areas. In order to overcome this drawback, a patient tracking technique COVID-Doctor (CODOC) has been proposed in this work which implements Global Positioning System (GPS) and multiple sensors to track patients in larger areas.
Highlights
The personal health monitoring of every individual is considered very important because of the rising health problems in today's world
The CODOC system, an online application is an integrated approach of linking the Global Positioning System (GPS) enabled Android app with wrist band towards continuous surveillance of suspected/confirmed COVID-19 patients, wherein timely medical intervention would assist in reduction of morbidity and mortality
The world population is facing a global pandemic caused by the COVID-19 and it has endangered the human like never before
Summary
The personal health monitoring of every individual is considered very important because of the rising health problems in today's world. With the predicted second wave of COVID-19 as well as the development of new variants of Corona Virus, social distancing has become a new normal In these circumstances, regular physical medical visits for a check-up might not be the most efficient option during this time [5,6,7]. The presence of a system for continuous storage of health data of an individual makes individual, resulting in the prediction of major health conditions This system features the emergency option, through which alerts can be sent concerning serious ill-health conditions to the nearest health facility for the faster health service delivery. This ensures proper effective treatment of the patient while assuring higher rates of survival. The presence of a thermal sensor, a pulse rate monitoring system provide efficient information regarding the patients’ health
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