ABSTRACT
The government took swift wide-ranging measures to protect the health and wellbeing of citizens using geospatial data and information communications technology, which included immediate upgrades to the Emergency Broadcast System. The speed with which these applications were developed and subsequently used by the community was a remarkable feat, and one that has set a benchmark for other countries aiming to flatten the curve of infections. Global pandemics have occurred with devastating impact over the past centuries. The Coronavirus disease-19 outbreak globally, is proving inherently difficult to manage because transmission can occur when people are pre-symptomatic or asymptomatic and not just when they have symptoms. Private companies have also leveraged location-based health-related data to create more sophisticated visualisation applications using geospatial data so that people can see the contaminated areas and pathways of confirmed cases throughout the country.
