COVID-19 KNOWLEDGE REPOSITORY

A resource website launched by Esri featuring different maps, applications, datasets, dashboards, and more about the on-going Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. It also offers GIS assistance and complimentary ArcGIS Online subscription  to public health agencies and other organizations helping to fight COVID-19.

Article talking about how a group of research scholars in Kerala, India is using Geographic Information System (GIS) to create maps showing the spatial distribution of increase/decrease of persons under COVID-19 observation in the area and how these maps can be used in formulating preventive measures to control the virus.

Dashboard from the World Health Organization (WHO) with a map, table, and graph showing the COVID-19 cases in different countries, areas, or territories and the total number of cases and deaths worldwide.

Dashboard from the Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at Johns Hopkins University (JHU) showing COVID-19 statistics such as number of cases, deaths, recovered, and active cases globally, nationally and sub-nationally in the form of tables, graph, and map.

Dashboard from Microsoft Bing showing the total number of confirmed, active, recovered, and fatal cases worldwide as well as the national and sub-national number of cases per country in the form of table, graph, and map. It also features links to news and videos related to COVID-19.

Dashboard from the Humanistic GIS Lab at University of Washington – Seattle showing the table and map of global and national or sub-national total number of confirmed, active confirmed, recovered, and fatal cases as well as the graph showing the trend for the different cases starting January 21st of this year.

Dashboard from the Department of Health (DOH) of the Philippines showing the number of confirmed, recovered, and fatal COVID-19 cases in the country as well as the health system capacity including the capacity of the different testing centers, availability.

Map from Channel News Asia showing the number of confirmed cases, reported deaths, and recovered cases from different countries.

A resource website from Cambodia Red Cross featuring maps, datasets, as well as statistics on the number of confirmed and recovered cases and deaths in the Mekong Region broken down by country. It also includes helpful information on what to do when you have the COVID-19 symptoms and how to prevent contracting the virus.

Article offering pointers and describing “a range of practical online/mobile GIS and mapping dashboards and applications for tracking the 2019/2020 coronavirus epidemic and associated events as they unfold around the world.” It also discusses additional ways GIS can support the fight against infectious disease outbreaks and epidemics. Original URL.

Article assessing the impact of the mobility restriction and social distancing being implemented during the Italy lockdown using anonymized location data from smartphone apps.

Article discussing the Johns Hopkins University COVID-19 dashboard: where it gets its data, how the data is mapped, how to access the dashboard among other topics.

Article discussing how COVID-19 can be controlled through the help of effective use of Geographic Information System (GIS).

Article showcasing the response of the Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at Johns Hopkins University to the COVID-19 public health emergency by developing an interactive web-based dashboard to visualize and track reported cases in real-time.

Article showcasing the dashboard created by the Western Illinois University GIS Center. The dashboard contains a web map to monitor the spread of COVID-19 in the state of Illinois.

Article talking about a website created by a new group of volunteer coders and medical professionals and data driven doctor and researcher Jorge A. Caballero which aims to provide up-to date location info for all testing sites in the U.S. The website is a potential resource to inform those working on the country’s emergency response and COVID-19 mitigation strategy or efforts to ensure that testing is available across the country.

Article discussing how location data from smartphone apps collected by companies such as Google and Facebook could be shared with and used by government agencies to help combat COVID-19 and the concerns on how this could breach user privacy.

Article talking about the US government discussing the use of aggregated, anonymized location data from smartphone apps to help combat COVID-19

Article talking about Carto, a location intelligence company, making its platform available to public and private sector organizations fighting against the COVID-19 outbreak via their grants program

Article discussing how the Israeli government has authorized the use of location data from smartphones to track the locations of people infected with COVID-19 and those they might have had contact with

Article in the form of an Esri StoryMap showing how COVID-19 has spread around different countries around the world

A resource website featuring information on Iraq such as statistics, applications, dashboards, and more about the on-going Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic as well as global case overview. It also includes helpful information on what to do when you have the COVID-19 symptoms and how to prevent contracting the virus.

A resource web page listing some available  sources to understand the spread of COVID-19, how open data and data availability are affecting the fight against the pandemic, as well as available visualization and dashboards.

A resource web page listing maps, dashboards, other sources showing COVID-19 situations around the world.

Article sharing maps, dashboards, and other resources showing COVID-19 situations around the world.

A resource web page of a collection of discussion groups of the Esri GeoNet Community collaborates by sharing ideas, questions, resources, and projects on COVID-19.

A discussion group where the Esri GeoNet Community collaborates by sharing ideas, questions, resources, and projects on COVID-19.

Dashboard showing the COVID-19 situation in Switzerland and Principality of Liechtenstein in the form of map, graph, tables

A time series map from Esri showing where COVID-19 spread around the world through time.

Article discussing how the City of Toronto is possibly obtaining location data from cellphones to generate heat maps of where people are still congregating as it works to further encourage social distancing to prevent the spread of COVID-19.

Article discussing the mobile application “Shield” developed by the Israel Health Ministry that will help people detect if they have been in contact with COVID-19 carriers by getting a notification on the time, date, and location regarding exposure to a confirmed patient

A time series map from HealthMap showing where COVID-19 spread around the world through time.

Dashboard showing the COVID-19 situation worldwide in the form of a time series map with pop-up information on the different locations, table, and graph

Article 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.

A resource from the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control providing regularly updated data on the number of reported cases from different countries. It also features graphs and maps of the COVID-19 distribution worldwide and a table on the cases and deaths per country.

A COVID-19 tracker featuring map, table, and trend graph on the cases and deaths by country.

Map from HERE Technologies showing the near real-time status based on data from the Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at Johns Hopkins University and DXY

A health checkup website from Google and Verily that gives information to visitors on nearby testing sites for those possibly afflicted with COVID-19.

A time series map from NBC New York showing the spread of the COVID-19 virus around the world since late January.

Article 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.

Article 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).

A crowdsourced map by the Reddit community showing the country and regional updates on COVID-19 as well as the location of confirmed, recovered, and deceased cases, quarantine sites, among others. Additional information about the COVID-2019 Reddit Map Community can be found here.

A video excerpt from a DW (Deutsche Welle) documentary titled “Coronavirus in China” showing phone apps that allow people to know the location of COVID-19 cases in their vicinity, where the ill person has been as well as how recent the cases are.

A video showing the fluctuation of nitrogen dioxide emissions over Europe based on measurements gathered by the Copernicus Sentinel-5P satellite and how the emissions have dropped which is particularly noticeable over northern Italy as the country implements a nationwide lockdown to prevent the spread of COVID-19.

Article from BBC News discussing the dramatic decline in pollution levels over China attributed partly to the economic slowdown prompted by COVID-19.

Article 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.

An interactive map that allows users to compare the air pollution level from different time periods for different locations around the world.

Map from Google showing the number of COVID-19 cases around the world. There is an accompanying table with the number of confirmed, recovered, and fatal cases as well cases per 1 million population per country.

A resource from CoMuNe lab showing a time series map and trend graphs of COVID-19 cases for different countries as well the data sources used to create them.

A crowdsourced map using uMap/OpenStreetMap showing COVID-19 information in Africa such as confirmed case, suspected cases, laboratories with capacity to test SARS-COV-2, among others.

A video showing an app that can help people find stores with available stocks of surgical masks in Taiwan eliminating the need for people to go to each store looking for masks and lining up to buy them.

Article 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.

Article 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.

Article 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.

Dashboard from the Ministry of Health and Sports (MOHS) of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar showing the COVID-19 situation in the country such as the number of suspected, confirmed, negative, and laboratory pending cases. It also includes documents on the travel history of the confirmed cases, key activities of MOHS, and health tips for the people, among others.

Dashboard from the Ministry of Health of the Kingdom of Cambodia showing the COVID-19 situation such as the number of confirmed, recovered, and fatal cases for the whole country and for each province.

Dashboard created by Kompa Group for Vietnam showing the COVID-19 situation in the country such as the number of confirmed and recovered cases.

Article 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.

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.

A resource from Our World in Data website sharing maps, charts, and data on COVID-19 sourced from the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC).

Dashboard from The World Bank showing the COVID-19 confirmed cases, new cases and total deaths worldwide. The graphs can also show the relationship between the cases and population statistics based on the variables chosen in the dashboard.

Dashboard from infection2020.com tracking the COVID-19 outbreak in the US by counties based on data from Centers for Disease Prevention and Control (CDC), World Health Organization (WHO), Conference of State Bank Supervisors (CSBS), 1PointAcres (1P3A), and Johns Hopkins University (JHU).

An interactive time series globe showing the national or sub-national COVID-19 situation around the world.

A time series map showing the spread of COVID-19 around the world through time. An accompanying table shows the COVID-19 cases and deaths by country.

The Ministry of Health and Social Action of the Republic of Senegal website featuring the country’s COVID-19 dashboard showing the national and sub-national situation such as the number of confirmed, recovered, and fatal cases. The website also includes COVID-19 situational reports of the country.

Dashboard from United Nations – Senegal showing the national and sub-national COVID-19 situation in the country.

Article from New York Times sharing the COVID-19 data they have collated down to the U.S. county level and telling the story of how and why they have combined these data into one source.

Dashboard created by 1Point3Acres showing the number of confirmed, recovered, and fatal COVID-19 cases separately for the United State of America and Canada in the form of maps and trend charts. A table of US cases per state and territory is also included in the page.

Dashboard created by Upcode Academy showing the COVID-19 total, active, deceased, and discharged cases in Taiwan.

Dashboard created by Upcode Academy showing the COVID-19 total, active, deceased, and discharged cases in Singapore.

Dashboard created by Upcode Academy showing the COVID-19 total, active, deceased, and discharged cases in the Philippines.

Dashboard created by Upcode Academy showing the COVID-19 total, active, deceased, and discharged cases in Indonesia.

Article from The Guardian discussing and showing maps of how COVID-19 spread around the world as well as maps showing the number of cases in different countries in Asia, Europe, and parts of Africa.

Article from The New York Times on the latest number of cases in the different US states accompanied by a nation-wide map.

Dashboard from the University of the Philippines – Resilience Institute showing the number of confirmed, recovered, and deceased COVID-19 cases in the Philippines. It also includes the number of Persons Under Investigation (PUIs), Persons Under Monitoring (PUMs), and persons tested.

A white paper from Esri detailing a two-step “geographic modeling approach to identify the optimal locations for COVID-19 testing sites, treatment sites, and food/resource distribution sites.”

Article written by Dr. Este Geraghty, Esri’s chief medical officer and health solutions director, wherein she details “five proactive steps communities and health organizations can take to begin to understand and mitigate the impact of COVID-19 on public health” through maps.

Article announcing that Esri is providing a COVID-19 Response Package which includes access to Esri’s geospatial platform and tools to World Health Organization (WHO) Member States’ Ministries of Health and Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network (GOARN) partners.

A regularly updated article from the National Geographic showing the number of COVID-19 cases worldwide.

A regularly updated article from NBC News showing map, graphs, and table of the number of COVID-19 cases in different countries and territories.

Dashboard from the World Health Organization (WHO) South-East Asia Region showing the COVID-19 situation such as the number of confirmed cases and deaths in its Member States.

Dashboard made with data from the Ministry of Health of Singapore showing the current number of infected, discharged, active, and deceased COVID-19 cases in the country.

Dashboard from the World Health Organization (WHO) African Region showing the COVID-19 situation such as the number of confirmed cases and deaths in its Member States.

Dashboard created by Esri Australia showing the number of COVID-19 confirmed, fatal, and recovered cases as well as the number of tests done for the country.

A resource website featuring information on Australia such as statistics, applications, dashboards, and more about the on-going COVID-19 pandemic as well as global cases overview.

Dashboard for Indonesia showing the total confirmed number, active, recovered, and fatal cases of COVID-19 in the country.

A resource website featuring information on Indonesia such as dashboard, data, applications, and more about the on-going COVID-19 pandemic.

Dashboard for Malaysia showing the total confirmed number, new confirmed, recovered, fatal, and ICU-treated cases of COVID-19 in the country.

A resource website featuring information on Malaysia such as statistics, applications, dashboards, and more about the on-going COVID-19 pandemic as well as global cases overview. It also includes helpful information on what to do when you have the COVID-19 symptoms and how to prevent contracting the virus.

A resource website for New Zealand featuring access to software, applications, data, dashboards, and more about the on-going COVID-19 pandemic.

Dashboard created by GroupMappers and Mahidol Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit (MORU) Epidemiology to show the COVID-19 situation in Bangladesh. The dashboard includes the number of confirmed, death, and recovered cases in the country as well as the number of persons tested, quarantined, and isolated. Mobile version.

A globe where you can click on a country or territory and get the number of total, active, deceased, and recovered COVID-19 cases.

A crowdsourced COVID-19 tracker in India showing the number of confirmed, active, recovered, and deceased cases for the whole country and the different states.

Dashboard for Malaysia showing the COVID-19 situation in the country including the number of cases per state and district, number of patient by cluster, and a map and list of the places where some of the patients have reportedly been to.

A resource website in Esri StoryMap format listing the different COVID-19 dashboards.

Dashboard for Hong Kong showing the number of confirmed, discharged, hospitalized, and death cases of COVID-19. It also shows the status and report date of cases. Chinese version.

Dashboard for Macao showing the COVID-19 situation in terms of number of total confirmed, severe, recovered, and death cases. It also includes information on the waiting situation in hospitals and mask sales location and stock.

Dashboard created by the Public Health Emergency Operation Center of the Ministry of Public Health of Thailand showing the number of confirmed, death, and recovered cases of COVID-19 as well as the number of persons under investigation (PUIs) in the country.

Dynamic map showing the spread of COVID-19 across different regions of the world from the 21^st of January, 2020.

Dashboard created by GMA News Online showing the summary of COVID-19 cases in the Philippines. It includes the total number of cases, recoveries, and deaths; number of daily cases; patients profile; number of cases per location and health institution; and cases per province.

Dashboard for the WHO Western Pacific Region showing the confirmed cases, deaths, and proportion of fatal cases for the whole region and by country/territory.

A white paper from Esri discussing the importance of location intelligence from geographic information system (GIS) technology and data and how GIS can be used when dealing with public health issues such as the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.

Dashboard from the WHO European Region showing the confirmed cases and deaths (including the count for the last 7 days) by country/territory in the region.

Dashboard from the UN Habitat in Iraq showing the total and active COVID-19 cases as well the deaths and recoveries. It also shows the number of location of informal settlements and internally displaced persons vulnerable to risk of COVID-19.

Dashboard from the United Nations World Food Programme (UN WFP) – Emergency Division showing the total number of confirmed cases, death, recoveries, and tests in Italy. It also shows the breakdown of confirmed cases per province.

Dashboard from the United Nations showing the number of confirmed cases, deaths, and recoveries for each country/territory in Africa with reported cases.

Dashboard from the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) showing the number of confirmed cases and deaths by country, sub-region, and for the whole region.

Starter kit guiding new users on how to operationalize the Coronavirus Case Dashboard included in the ArcGIS Solution for Coronavirus Response as a way to show the COVID-19 situation in their community.

A resource website in Esri StoryMap format showing how Geospatial professionals and different GIS communities around the world are responding to COVID-19.

Dashboard showing the total number of confirmed cases, death, and recoveries in Afghanistan. It also shows the the number of confirmed cases per province.

A Story Map showing how GIS is used to be able to identify sites capable of treating COVID-19 to extend existing healthcare infrastructure to meet demand.

Dashboard showing the COVID-19 cases and community profile in New South Wales, Australia. The maps show the socio-economic ranking of different areas in NSW based on the Australian Bureau of Statistics Socio-Economic Indexes for Areas (SEIFA) index.

Dashboard showing the COVID-19 situation in Bangladesh such as the number of confirmed cases, total tested, and total recovered. The breakdown of cases per district is also included.

A resource website on the COVID-19 Situation Response in Bangladesh featuring information such as an overview of the number of confirmed cases, deaths, and recoveries; COVID-19 dashboard; hospital location web application; and heat map on the COVID-19 cases in Dhaka.

Dashboard showing the number of confirmed cases, deaths, and recoveries in India. A graph showing the breakdown of cases by state is also included.

GIS Portal Task Force for the Acceleration of Handling COVID-19 Republic of Indonesia

Dashboard showing the COVID-19 situation in Indonesia such as the number of confirmed cases, deaths, and total recovered. The breakdown of the cases per province is also included.

Dashboard showing the COVID-19 situation in Japan such as the total number of confirmed cases (including the number of symptomatic and asymptomatic cases) and deaths.

Dashboard showing the COVID-19 situation in Myanmar such as the total number test, confirmed cases, recoveries, and deaths. The breakdown of the cases per Township is also included.

Dashboard showing the COVID-19 situation in Sri Lanka such as the total reported cases, recoveries, and deaths. It also shows the breakdown of cases per age and gender and information on patients (status, notes, and detection place).

Dashboard from Health Promotion Bureau of Sri Lanka showing the COVID-19 situation in the country. It includes the daily and total count for the number of confirmed cases, deaths, recovered and discharged, and suspected and hospitalized. It also has a breakdown of cases in country by dsitrict.

A resource page listing different COVID-19 situational dashboards.

A website launched by Singapore’s National Parks Board which shows a map with the visitorship status of the parks or public nature areas in the country to help the public know which areas are safe to visit while practising distancing.

A podcast from Dr. Lauren Gardner, the engineering professor and co-director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Systems Science and Engineering, who discusses the origin of the Johns Hopkins COVID-19 dashboard and how it evolved into a real-time tool to monitor and respond to the coronavirus pandemic.

Article discussing a new series of interactive maps that analyzes recent COVID-19 cases in the United States at county level to help determine whether counties could be on the verge of an outbreak or not.

The article provides the link to the maps and methodology.

Article announcing that Esri is providing free access to its ArcGIS platform and training resources to professionals worldwide who are impacted by work furloughs during the COVID-19 outbreak.

A new series of interactive maps that analyzes recent COVID-19 cases in the United States at county level to help determine whether counties could be on the verge of an outbreak or not based on coronavirus statistics provided by Johns Hopkins University.

A crowdsourcing StoryMap from UN Habitat aimed at collecting information about the current COVID-19 situation in your city or neighborhood, the existing response measures, and emerging impacts from the pandemic. Your answers are then used to help paint a more accurate picture on what is happening in urban areas across the world.

Article discussing the migration of residents out of New York City as the coronavirus pandemic hit by analyzing sources of aggregated smart phone location and how the income of neighborhoods has become a predictor of this migration.

A regularly updated article from CNN showing the number of coronavirus case reported from 214 countries and territories in map, table, and graph.

Dashboard from United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) that shows the population vulnerable to COVID-19 to provide ” decision makers, experts and the general public with access to information on populations at risk in order to target preparedness and response.”

A white paper from Esri detailing the three facility mapping solution levels they have developed that use various GIS technologies that scale based on the mission need. This deals with facilities being used in new ways being used to helo combat the COVID-19 pandemic.

Blog announcing the new Coronavirus Health Screening Solution from Esri as part of ArcGIS Solutions. “Coronavirus Health Screening is a collection of maps and apps that can be used by businesses, utilities, and government agencies to conduct coronavirus (COVID-19) health screenings before employees and visitors are permitted to enter a building, facility, or location.”

Blog announcing the release of 11 new ArcGIS Solutions including 2 solutions related to COVID-19: Coronavirus Site Safety and Coronavirus Health Screening.
“Coronavirus Site Safety can be used by businesses, educational institutions, and government agencies to create coronavirus (COVID-19) health safety plans for their facilities, sites, and campuses; and monitor the health safety plans as locations reopen.
Coronavirus Health Screening can be used by businesses, utilities, and government agencies to conduct coronavirus (COVID-19) health screenings before employees and visitors enter a facility, or location.”

Webinar discussing how the ArcGIS platform can support the contact tracing workflow, from data collection and management to analytics and outcome evaluation.

Training lessons being used by GOARN partners on the use of ArcGIS at the Basic and Intermediate levels for use in COVID-19 response .
Basic Level: To better communicate with others who provide specialized GIS support and Intermediate Level: To visualize, monitor, and analyze COVID-19 trends.

Article/blog sharing a quick guide on some simple and concrete tips on how to deliver effective maps and avoid common pitfalls which can also be applied in the context of other types of pandemics, natural disasters, and humanitarian emergencies.

A resource webpage from Esri featuring tools that can help government and healthcare leaders around the world to efficiently and equitably distribute COVID-19 vaccines.

A resource web page in the Esri ArcGIS Hub featuring different websites illustrating “the ways announcements, information, data, and tools are being shared with the community during the novel coronavirus pandemic and recovery.”

A resource website from the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) in Somalia featuring a COVID-19 dashboard, interactive map, preparedness and contingency plans, videos, local updates through Twitter, and other additional Coronavirus resources.

Article in the form of an Esri StoryMap discussing trends within the COVID-19 pandemic and presenting maps showing the trend for different countries. The maps are updated daily to enable the team to make improvements to the trend definitions as new information becomes available.

A regularly updated article from Bloomberg showing the number of COVID-19 cases and death in the different countries through map, graphs, and charts.

A journal article discussing an attempt to correlate different climatic and topographic variables with the number of COVID-19 infections in different states of India.

An article from a professor of meteorology at the University of Georgia relating how geography is not just about maps, capitals, and rivers but rather a discipline that offers a lot of ways to better analyze and understand COVID-19 and other pandemics.

An article by David Wolman wherein he ponders that in a world where internet and cyberspace has ruled, the pandemic has been making people once again aware of physical spaces; knowing the “where” of things has become a key to safety.

A video lecture on “how geographers investigate the emergence, spread, and possible containment of the SARS-CoV2 virus through a unique lens of spatial interaction” and “how different geographical tools are used to convey information in both useful and not-so-useful ways.”

A special issue of the Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie (TESG) (Journal of Economic and Social Geography) presenting the initial investigations of geographers and socio‐spatial scientists into the emerging spaces of the effects of the COVID‐19 pandemic.

An article discussing about the survey conducted by the Carnegie Mellon University’s Delphi Lab on COVID-19 vaccination acceptance which is an important tracker in determining how quickly or readily the United States will reach herd immunity. The result of the survey is presented as a map.

An article in the National Geographic Online discussing about the latest information about the different COVID-19 vaccines including which countries have given approval for use for each vaccine.

An article discussing how geographic information system (GIS) mapping software and location intelligence play a key role in distributing the COVID-19 vaccine effectively.

A resource webpage from Esri featuring ArcGIS Solutions for COVID-19. “ArcGIS Solutions are free and supported configurations provided by Esri for defense, utilities, state government, local government, and other industries that enable typical workflows in specific industries, deliver innovation, and incorporate best practices that improve the organization’s workflows.”

A resource webpage from Esri explaining how to use the Coronavirus Vaccine Distribution Dashboard.

A resource webpage from Esri featuring Coronavirus Vaccine Outreach which “can be used to communicate vaccination plans, increase public confidence in coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccinations, and ensure the public knows when, and where, they can be vaccinated.”

A resource webpage from Esri featuring Vaccine Coverage Analysis which “can be used to identify underserved populations and optimize plans for disease vaccination sites.”

Dashboard from the Duke Global Health Innovation Center featuring maps and graphs showing “the most recent data on vaccine purchases and negotiations by individual countries and unilateral partnerships from 16 companies. Unilateral partnerships include the African Union, European Union, Latin America excluding Brazil, and COVAX, the global initiative aimed to produce, procure, and distribute vaccines to member countries.”

An example of the Esri Coronavirus Vaccine Distribution Hub that can be used to communicate with the public the government’s plan regarding how it is planning, tracking, and monitoring the distribution of the vaccine. There are also several demonstrations available when you click on the “Ministry of Health” link in the web page.

A research article using GIS-based approaches in evaluating the demand in contrast to the capacity of Referral Hospitals in handling COVID-19 cases as well as in modelling the spreading case of COVID-19 in order to support and organize effective health service in Jakarta, Indonesia.

An article presenting a systematic review of the current evidence on the implementation of GIS and other geospatial tools in the COVID-19 pandemic.

An article that assessed how the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) clustered across districts in South Korea and whether the pattern and duration of clusters changed following the country’s containment strategy.”

A dashboard showing the latest updates from Africa CDC on progress made in COVID-19 vaccinations on the continent.

A demonstration of the Coronavirus Vaccine Outreach solution that contains sample data. This should only be used for demonstration purposes.

A StoryMap showing how ArcGIS provides the tools necessary to close the gaps in vaccine accessibility.

A funding opportunity from The Global Fund to “support countries to mitigate the impact of COVID-19 on programs to fight HIV, TB, and malaria, and initiate urgent improvements in health and community systems.”

The Vaccine Data Co-Lab is a collaboration with governments, civil society organisations, and network partners to close data gaps in vaccine rollouts in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs).

It is calling for a technical proposals from organisations working directly with local and national governments in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) to ensure sustained capacity for vaccine deployment.

An article introducing an interactive map published by the European Commission showcasing the COVID-19 vaccine production capacities in the EU along the entire supply chain.

An article from The Guardian discussing and presenting maps of how COVID-19 spread around the world, graphs showing the number of cases and deaths, and graphs and map of the vaccine situation in different countries in Asia, Europe, and parts of Africa.

An interactive 3D map showing the vaccination status of diferent countries.

An article from Bloomberg discussing and showing a world map of vaccine situation and a more detailed breakdown for the situation in the United States of America.

A research article discussing how “strategies that prioritize high-risk geographic areas for vaccination at all ages better target mortality risk than age-based strategies alone” in analyses done in the states of California and Minnesota.

An interim guidance document from the WHO on minimum and optional data to collect as vaccines are being rolled out and delivered; key performance indicators and the anticipated use of these; and the use of information systems to collect, store, analyse, and disseminate any relevant information.

An article from the National Geographic about the Delta Plus variant of COVID-19, its fast spread across different countries, and the precautions that should be taken with this variant.

An article from the National Geographic about the Delta variant of COVID-19, its fast spread across different countries, and how areas with lower vaccination rates are more at risk with this variant.

A research article from the Office of the Assistant for Planning and Evaluation of the US Department of Health and Human Services “explores data on unvaccinated adults who express a willingness to be vaccinated against COVID-19 among different geographic areas and sociodemographic groups. Additionally, this analysis models which factors are associated with being unvaccinated but willing and examines changing trends over time.”

An article by Dr Este Geraghty of Esri provides an introduction to the interactive map “Which Way Are Things Going?” which aims to accurate and actionable information with data from state level to county level in the United States. It also explains why map-based information has become very useful in keeping track of what’s happening during the COVID pandemic.

An interactive map from Esri created “to help policy makers, business leaders and the public understand COVID-19 trends, Charlie Frye, Chief Cartographer at Esri, analyzes the week to week changes in active cases. By shifting focus from the highly variable daily changes in active case counts to a weekly perspective, we can see weekly trends emerge.”

A storymap that explores the “geospatial relationships and patterns between vaccination rollout and population data, in order to better understand the geographic distribution of vaccination rollout and levels of uptake” in England by using the Covid-19 vaccination data published by NHS England.

A lecture video showing how “geographers investigate the emergence, spread, and possible containment of the SARS-CoV2 virus through a unique lens of spatial interaction” and how different geographical tools are used to convey information in both useful and not-so-useful ways.

A research article aimed augmenting the lack of COVID-19 vaccine accessibility studies in urban areas by measuring the potential spatial access to COVID-19 vaccination centers in Mashhad, the second-most populous city in Iran. This is in order to provide more information and insights to urban urban public health decision-makers.

An article discussing the analysis done on COVID-19 cases in India during the pre-lockdown, lockdown, and unlock phases using geospatial technology at district, state, and country levels. Comparison were also made with other countries around the world particularly those that had the highest infection rates.

An article discussing how geospatial epidemiology was used to help visualize the severity of the COVID-19 outbreak in high density residential facilities (dormitories) and in shaping outbreak management strategies in dormitories.

An article discussing the first comprehensive study of COVID-19 in Iran. “Four main steps were taken: comparison of Iranian coronavirus data with the global trends, prediction of mortality trends using regression modeling, spatial modeling, risk mapping, and change detection using the random forest (RF) machine learning technique (MLT), and validation of the modeled risk map.”

An article discussing the use of remote sensing and geospatial analysis to quantify burial numbers from January 2017 to September 2020 in Mogadishu in order to calculate the burial rates increase during the COVID-19 pandemic.

This document published by WHO and UNICEF is a global guidance providing the framework for countries on how to develop their national deployment and vaccination plans (NDVPs). This guidance includes the use of geospatial data and digital micro plans for equitable access and delivery of COVID-19 vaccine.

This document provides operational guidance and information to support planners and immunization programme managers at the national and sub-national levels on microplanning for COVID-19 vaccination implementation. This publication is a companion document to the NDVP National Deployment and Vaccination Plans guidance, which provides a framework for countries to develop their national strategies.