(VOVWORLD) - Two apps with GIS technology to manage COVID-19 and help local residents shop online have been handed over to 11 districts in Ho Chi Minh City.
 COVID-19 outbreak control in Thu Duc City via a GIS map |
The technological solutions have been put into use at a wider scale after it was trial run in Thu Duc City.
The shopping app can update information about stores and supermarkets selling essential goods, and the available merchandise there.
The GIS-based epidemic management app has the main features of COVID-19 map, COVID-19 case management, space analysis, data layer management, statistics collection, and report preparation.
The software’s analysis tools allow the evaluation of positive cases, suspected cases, infected people in the same household, COVID-19 progress, and prepares reports to send to state leaders via emails.
The data layer map helps to clearly display the border of neighborhoods, wards, centralized quarantine wards, COVID-19 treatment sites, along with updated statistics for daily evaluation of the current COVID-19 status and possible spreading.