Application of Geographic Information System in Monitoring and Detecting the COVID-19 Outbreak

摘要

In December 2019, a novel type of Coronavirus (later named as COVID-19) started from China and after a while rapidly spread to other parts of the world (1–2). As of 19 April 2020, more than 2.245 million cases of COVID-19 have been reported in 213 countries (3). Despite of the unique and unknown characteristic of this Virus, it is a very high spread infectious disease. Therefore finding the geographic accuracy of the Virus spread is crucial for the epidemiologists and authorities in order to respond to the infection outbreak quickly and appropriately (4).