According to WHO, a vaccine is expected to be developed by scientists in a year and a half from the moment of identifying the virus’s genome. Till that day, humans must respond on the ground in the face of COVID-19 to control its spreading among the countries and protect the Earth and themselves.
The COVID-19 Fighter application seeks to present the importance of utilizing communication systems and technology in the management of such pandemics. It also illustrates why the communication strategies are affordable for taking out that virus from the Earth than any other approach. Moreover, it seeks to differentiate between types of communication strategies in these circumstances.
Most of the used strategies against the prior diseases like Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS), and Ebola viruses, have gone up in smoke in dealing with COVID-19. The increasing number of infections and fatalities that exceeded over 3.3 million cases, till 1st May, around the world, is the most robust evidence for those attempts’ failure in controlling the COVID-19’s outbreak. Thus, this application reveals the latest communication approaches for managing seizures.
After searching and analyzing peer-reviewed research papers and discussing the different communication methods to control infectious diseases regarding their pros and cons and analyzing different space-based observations, the group was inspired that Mobile Applications should be the next strategy to fight COVID-19 around the world. Mobile applications are the most accessible communication solution to decrease virus transmission. Health apps are provided for free for all users making it affordable to all socioeconomic statuses. Mobile applications do not consume energy, unlike robots and drones do. It is easily developed compared to AI, which decreases the possible issues. Consequently, the group made an app that collects every advantage from different coronavirus apps. This app seeks to point out the importance of utilizing communication systems and technologies within the management of the COVID-19 pandemic, which can be applied in all countries with different socioeconomic statuses. It presents the opportunities for implementing communication systems to take care of social-distancing from an interdisciplinary perspective relying on Space science and STEM-related fields. The COVID-19 fighter app provides the subsequent features:
It connects its user to close health-care Services by the corporation with more than 2000 pharmacies from different regions.
2- It tracks people using satellites getting to navigate beyond anyone who has tested positive for the coronavirus; then, it sends a notification to whoever has crossed paths with a COVID-19 carrier to require precautions.
3- It asks its user about his health status every 12 hours to notify him of what procedures he must fancy protecting himself supported the planet health organization’s health-instructions.
4- Finally, the app notifies its user with new government health instructions according to the place he lives in.
Eventually, For the Earth’s future security and future research in the role of communication in managing and controlling threatening epidemics, some recommendations, for those who have the passion for continuing from where stopped are written below:
• Conducting studies about the possibility of decreasing artificial intelligence technologies’ prices like Drowns and Robots to be applied in not only the rich countries but also the developing ones as they are more practical than Mobile Apps.
• Conducting geographical studies with statistics about the number of infections in each place and insert it in the App will guide the users where they can go without being infected.
• Studying the possibility of increasing Mobile phones’ securities by various ways to prevent users of such apps from getting hacked and their privacy gets violated.
• Increasing studies in the communication field because it is essential for solving the future world’s problems and keeping the Earth safe.
Video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWAfrMH2Ngc
Project research paber:
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1Qd8Eo9uhcTIlaM2FpFxHSK_y0R1vkhKv
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