Abstract
Due to its novelty, the recent pandemic of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), which is associated with the spread of the new severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2), triggered the public’s interest in accessing information, demonstrating the importance of obtaining and analyzing credible and updated information from an epidemiological surveillance context. For this purpose, health authorities, international organizations, and university institutions have published online various graphic and cartographic representations of the evolution of the pandemic with daily updates that allow the almost real-time monitoring of the evolutionary behavior of the spread, lethality, and territorial distribution of the disease. The purpose of this article is to describe the technical solution and the main results associated with the publication of the COMPRIME_COMPRI_MOv dashboard for the dissemination of information and multi-scale knowledge of COVID-19. Under two rapidly implementing research projects for innovative solutions to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic, promoted in Portugal by the FCT (Foundation for Science and Technology), a website was created. That website brings together a diverse set of variables and indicators in a dynamic and interactive way that reflects the evolutionary behavior of the pandemic from a multi-scale perspective, in Portugal, constituting itself as a system for monitoring the evolution of the pandemic. In the current situation, this type of exploratory solutions proves to be crucial to guarantee everyone’s access to information while simultaneously emerging as an epidemiological surveillance tool that is capable of assisting decision-making by public authorities with competence in defining control policies and fight the spread of the new coronavirus.
Highlights
In December 2019, several cases of pneumonia of unknown origin appeared in China.Earlier that year, the World Health Organization (WHO) had published a list of ten major global threats, including pandemics associated with respiratory diseases [1]
Regarding WebGIS cartography, the information is structured in GeoJSON format that contains all the associated data series, topology, and coordinates. This dashboard ensures the monitoring of the evolution of COVID-19 at various scales, in a close articulation between the geographic and temporal dimensions
WebGIS cartography with time control ensures the representation of variables in a spatio
Summary
In December 2019, several cases of pneumonia of unknown origin appeared in China.Earlier that year, the World Health Organization (WHO) had published a list of ten major global threats, including pandemics associated with respiratory diseases [1]. In January 2020, a new severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) was identified and recognized as responsible for the spread of the COVID-19 disease. Due to the rapid progression of the disease, the increase in the number of deaths associated with it, and its widespread expansion, the WHO declared COVID-19 as a pandemic on 11 March 2020. By this date, more than 100,000 people were infected in 114 countries, and the number of deaths was already 4000 [2]. The number of confirmed cases in the world has exceeded 60 million, and the number of deaths is over
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