Download and Monitor Covid-19 Novel Coronavirus Global Pandemic Daily Da...

Covid-19 pandemic has been hit our lives entirely. There are so many negative impact of COVID-19 to almost all of every aspect of daily living, no matter in which place you are live, which country you are reside. The worsening pandemic needs full attention not only for the global governments, but also all the stakeholders, private companies, non-profit organization, everyone should be cooperated and working together to make this pandemic over soon. 

Geospatial data is always playing important role on this matter. Take the story of John Snow in England as an example. He was the first person to map the distribution of utilities with the cholera outbreak distribution, and by looking the map made by himself, he can identify the sources of the infection, just by spatial analysis. He show the power of multivariate mapping and spatial analysis to solve previously uncharacterized disease distribution. 

Now if we return to the currently happening COVID-19 outbreaks, many agency, companies or non-profit organization already publish huge collection of geospatial data. They are monitoring the development of the pandemic almost in daily level, and use the collected data to propose decision and policy. One of them are John Hopkins University that release daily COVID-19 data using free-access API. The published data can be used to monitor the distribution and COVID-19 outbreak in global level (for some countries already reaching state or provincial level). And spatial analysis today is pretty much better than the technological advancement at the John Snow era. We have QGIS, a powerful Spatial Analysis package that widely used around the world, so logically we can made some analysis that almost far more comprehensive than what John Snow already did. 

So if you are very inspired of John Snow story (you can check the complete story of him by looking for his name in Google Search), and you want to do the same, below is a video turial about how to get the daily COVID-19 data in geospatial format at global level, and using our beloved free-to-use GIS friend, Quantum GIS.