作者
Esmaeil Mohammadi, Mehrdad Azmin, Nima Fattahi, Erfan Ghasemi, Sina Azadnajafabad, Negar Rezaei, Mohammad-Mahdi Rashidi, Mohammad Keykhaei, Hossein Zokaei, Nazila Rezaei, Rosa Haghshenas, Farzad Kaveh, Erfan Pakatchian, Hamidreza Jamshidi, Farshad Farzadfar
发表日期
2022/2
期刊
Digital Health
卷号
8
页码范围
20552076221076252
出版商
SAGE Publications
简介
Background
Development of surveillance systems based on big data sources with spatial information is necessitated more than ever during this pandemic. Here, we present our pilot results of a new technique for the incorporation of spatial information of transactions and a vital registry of COVID-19 to evaluate the disease spread.
Methods
We merged two databases of laboratory-confirmed national COVID-19 registry of Iran and financial transactions of point-of-sale devices from February to March 2020 as our training data sources. Spatial information was used for the visualization of maps and movements of sick individuals. We used the point-of-sale devices-related guild to check for the dynamics of financial transactions and effectiveness of quarantines.
Findings
In the study period, 174,428 confirmed cases were in the COVID-19 registry with accompanying transactions information. In total, 13,924,982 financial …
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