Article discussing the app being developed by the World Health Organization (WHO) that will, among other functions, help in contact tracing, a process in which public health officials try to determine whom an infected person has been in contact with. This is done by using the location data or GPS history of smartphones.
Read MoreArticle talking about how experts from Oxford University are supporting the feasibility of developing a contact tracing mobile app as part of an integrated government strategy to contain the spread of COVID-19.
Read MoreArticle from Geoawesomeness talking about a new anti-corona app “STOP Corona!” that lets people from all across the world report their medical symptoms online in order to create a predictive map of COVID-19 hotspots.
Read MoreArticle from Kenneth Field of Esri discussing how to map COVID-19 data responsibly in order to ensure that information being conveyed is depicted correctly even when using different modes of representation such as choropleth, dot density, proportional symbol, heat map, and 3d.
Read MoreArticle discussing how the HongKong government is requiring all arriving passengers to wear an electronic wristband to track their location and ensure they are following the two-week quarantine being imposed to prevent the spread of COVID-19.
Read MoreArticle from Gizmondo discussing and featuring maps of US Regions showing how the imposed lockdowns to prevent the spread of COVID-19 have resulted to dramatic decrease in air pollution.
Read MoreArticle from BBC News discussing the dramatic decline in pollution levels over China attributed partly to the economic slowdown prompted by COVID-19.
Read MoreArticle from GEO University presenting a simple geospatial analysis on the spread of COVID-19 using airport location data from datahub.io and COVID-19 cases data from the Johns Hopkins University Center for Systems Science and Engineering (JHU-CSSE).
Read MoreArticle from The New York Times discussing the spread of COVID-19 around the world and includes maps featuring the number of cases worldwide as well as those in the US, Europe and Asia.
Read MoreArticle from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention discussing the COVID-19 cases in the United States of America including a map and table showing the number of cases per state and territory.
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