Mapping Spatial Pattern of COVID-19 In Sulaimaniyah City from August 2020 to September 2021  based on Infected Cases recorded in Shahid Hemen Hospital

Salim  Neimat Azeez; Iraj  Mohammed Amin

doi:10.25098/7.1.2

Authors

Salim Neimat Azeez Darbandikhan Technical Iinstitute, Sulaimani Polytechnic University, Sulaimani, Iraq
Iraj Mohammed Amin Darbandikhan Technical Iinstitute, Sulaimani Polytechnic University, Sulaimani, Iraq

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.25098/7.1.2

Keywords:

COVID-19, Corona Virus, RS, GIS, Sulaimaniyah, Kurdistan Region, Iraq

Abstract

United Nations has described COVID-19 as a social, human, and economic crisis. Considering the undeniable ability to analyze, display, save and manipulating of spatial data, a wide range of studies have revealed that Remote Sensing (RS) and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) can play a vital role in managing natural hazards as well as worldwide disasters. This paper aim to show the spatial distribution of infection-related factors connected to COVID-19 including age, gender, job, date of infection and distance from the health center using RS/GIS tools across Sulaimaniyah, Kurdistan Region (KR), Iraq based on data recorded in Shahid Hemen Hospital (SHH), which can provide useful insights for policymakers for targeted interventions. Results revealed that, regardless of age it was found that the prevalence of Covid 19 symptoms, as well as, mortality in men is higher than in women. It is also revealed that the highest rang of infection was recorded for the age group 60-69 years old, which was 241 cases of total 1152 cases, which could be due to lack of immunity and chronic diseases, while the lowest infections were between age group 10-19 years old because of high level of immunity, which was 8 cases, altogether. More, the spatial distribution based of age categories show almost a same pattern for all age classes. The worker men were most infected comparison to other jobs due to high level of social contact, while the most infected cases among females were occupied by housekeeper. In other hand the results showed that the October 2020 was the month within the most cases of COVID- 19 were recorded. It’s also revealed that, 80% of cases were recorded in September, October, and November. According to results, there has been a lack of COVID health center in the city, since the spatial distribution of infected people who are recorded in SHH was as wide as the area of Sulaimaniyah city and it was not confined to the hospital neighborhood. Since centers are not distributed well among the city,more than 42% had to pass more than 4 km to reach the SHH.

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