In this modern era , humans are fully committed to the development of technology and military weapons. Unfortunately ,most of the advanced countries are not considering the crises of infectious diseases that would probably kill a lots of people in the world. Finally in one day, Bill Gates had predict that a pandemic will killed millions of people in the future and his predictions really came true (Lee, 2020). In 2019 ,the World Health Organization (WHO) announced a pandemic of new corona virus that can cause a disease called Covid-19 (Rettner, 2020) . A big amount of pandemic cases suddenly show up and the virus outbreak is proven in many countries by a lot of situations. Therefore, as the virus spread rapidly across the world , most of the country manage to require the front-line personnel to save the infected patient thus prevent more casualties (Kerrissey, 2020). For examples , China started to lockdown from January 23 and this had effectively prevented the further export of infected individuals to other parts of the country (Gunia, 2020).
Secondly , lack of the acknowledges about the pandemic and the symptoms of Covid-19 are one of the issues that cause the patient increase daily in every country (Bruegel, 2020). Nowadays , virus will evolve over time so we are not able to find out all of the virus and their symptoms (Wessner). Unfortunately , we have no advantage in fighting viruses, which causes the virus to take countless lives in a short time. In order to control the impact of the epidemic , governments of various countries gradually began to implement the isolation plan and force their citizens to stay at home to reduce the number of confirmed patients (Lee A. , 2020) .Although the virus has spread violently , people still not take it as a mine , but just regard it as a small symptom and causing people to spread the virus I dense places in human-to-human manner (Appiah, 2020).
Therefore , we are planning to find out a platform which is VR diagram that can educate the students about the symptoms of Covid-19. First ,we are going to find out a virus simulator to educate the students because if we have the knowledge of the virus , we can probably avoid it and also take appropriate epidemic prevention measures as well . Second , people must be educated to stay at home all the time to cooperate with the World Health Organization (WHO) for social distancing. Other than that , we must also follow to the recent epidemic situation in order to effectively avoid the areas with severe epidemics. Although students are not able to go to school during the pandemic , but students still can using VR diagram to learn without joining the physical classes thus protect ourselves and our family.
In conclusion , several industry , economy and also education in the world has been deeply influenced by Covid-19 within a few months. In this epidemic , we can understand the importance of the Internet. If we are unable to educate and work online, various countries will be further fatally affected by Covid-19. In any case , education is the most basic way for humans to learn , and educate people about the symptoms of Covid-19. However, this can effectively prevent human face-to-face contact , thereby reducing the risk of illness. In overall , once we gain the knowledge about Covid-19 , we can efficiently get through this pandemic as soon as possible.
As the Covid-19 outbreak and spread , most of the countries are impacted and taking covid-19 response measure. For examples ,according to the record , Malaysia reported the first 2 deaths case on 17 March who was a 60-year-old man from Sarawak and a 34-year-old man from Johor (Khaliq, 2020) while the total of the death case is 113 till today (Salim, 2020). However , Malaysia was confirmed join the list of Covid-19 on 25 January 2020 when the first case appear who a infected individuals from Wuhan in Johor (Duddu, 2020). Due to the patient appear and infected one after another , Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin had published Movement Control Order (MCO) on 18 March 2020 to control the disease transmission (HUAN, 2020). However, not even enterprise , education in our country had seriously affected thus impact the economic of our country deeply. Therefore , education cannot be implemented because it have been affected by school closures (Sipalan, 2020). According to the research , we can obviously know that Covid-19 causes the education deeply influenced and peoples are facing several problems during the pandemic.
Secondly, not only Malaysia , the whole world had been affected by this pandemic in the past few months especially China , USA , Italy and others. Due to this pandemic , most of the sport leagues have been canceled and people must work from home and the school are closing for a few months (Engle, 2020). Furthermore , our entertainment , income and education has changed and we must maintain a distance with other people because of social distancing and it is important to control the spread of the virus (Cross, 2020). However, the immediate action is roughly at the universities , colleges , primary schools and others. In this situation , students lives and their academic courses have been disrupted . Due to the school are closing , students are not able to join the physical classes and this may causes student with a negative effects (Arnhold, 2020). Other than that , students may lost the social awareness and social skills when they aren’t going to school because study at school totally is one of the best way to raise skills and gain knowledge (Simon Burgess, 2020) . Besides that , Covid-19 not only interrupts the teaching for students, it also causes many examinations have to postponed or even canceled . For examples , in the United Kingdom , all the exams for GCSEs and A-levels have been canceled for the whole cohort because of the lockdown (Burgess, 2020).
In addition ,nowadays, peoples are lack of awareness of Covid-19 so they are not cooperate with the government to stay at home. Unfortunately ,the pandemic can insanely spread from people to people , so a crowded place or a big assembly will lead a large amount of virus to spread and become a irreparable issues. In this situation, they are not prepared for the outbreak because they not believe that they would be inflected (Serper, 2020). However , many adults with fully confidences are lacked critical knowledge about Covid-19 which can cause people to die within a month. For examples , in Paris, one of a little girl infected Covid-19 and her illness start with a cough but he she turn into a worse and had to use a ventilator to save her life within a couple of days (French, 2020). Day by day , the rate of new deaths of Covid-19 starts to increases, it is a bad sign that the disease has not be controlled as well. In Italy , it’s not really clear that how many were asymptomatic versus symptomatic . Other than that , it is also not clear whether similar test standard have been applied to the patients (Lazzerini, 2020). Moreover , there is lack of data on the prevalence of the disease in asymptomatic patients. So , the actual prevalence of Covid-19 and the mortality rate are remain unknown (Roser, 2020).
Although the Covid-19 pandemic brings a lot of effect, but also lead us to a lot of improvement such as medical treatment, environment purification especially technology (Clief, 2020). The pandemic forced school closure from public yet we still have solution for students to learn and follow up the syllabus by inventing new technology and develop new field which is e-learning platform (Li, 2020). E-learning is actually very familiar in this century but because of this pandemic it has undergo a lot of enhancement. In this opinion, e-learning create a platform for students to continue their learning and study and still avoiding social activities because of the ability of staying at home learning online and prosecuting social distancing (Lau, 2020). Therefore, students and families still have to learn and understand the importance and essential of staying at home learning by using online tools. Here is an example, IEP meetings is created to take place remotely on the school closures, that assessment and re-evaluations can still occur online and that meetings and observations in real life and in-person contact can be carry over until schools reopen (Rohmiller, 2020).
This pandemic that is happening affect the operation of major areas and fields but at least it let us realize and understand the importance of internet and technology. This pandemic almost pause a lot of industry and field operation, yet education can’t be stopped from any emergency situation. Additionally, this pandemic help us recognize that virus is around us all the time and the symptoms is way serious than we thought, thus the education about health and hygiene is essential in this decade. Hopefully, the whole world will cooperate with WHO, staying at home and practicing social distancing to stop rising cases and avoid more critical situation. Although we can’t walk around during this pandemic , but we can still learning from internet and improve ourselves every moment.
The COVID-19 global pandemic has caused over 5 million infection cases and over 300 thousand deaths. (WHO, 2020) Most of the countries have the action of MCO, citizens will have to stay at home and being self-quarantine other than necessary. Student and educator are not exception, therefore the quality of lesson has dropped due to face-to-face interaction and without an effective software. Places like school and crowed public area are completely lockdown owing to the role movement control order from the government. (Media, 2020) Especially the deadline of movement restriction is extended, and the exact deadline still not confirm. Thence, the innovation of building a simulator app for users to learn about infectious diseases would be essential in many areas.
To begin with, the simulator app will need to cooperate will the data from NASA to analyze the current situation and predict the future trend of this pandemic in a basic aspect. For user to learn about the reason of the action taken by the government to response to this COVID-19 pandemic. All detail and characteristic of all infectious diseases will be store in the database. The simulator app can imitate any situation with other factor in history, for example, the simulator could analyze the black death that spread in 1347 (Ziegler, 2013) and ask the user to choose the action should be taken during this pandemic. After that the simulator would examine the option and provide result. User can learn about the principle of the infectious diseases in a virtual environment.
Secondly, the simulator could provide a contactless way for student in order to increase the effectiveness of learning. The simulator can be a game for student who learn about the topic of infectious disease. This is a perfect example of passive learning to attract student in order to increase the effectiveness. It is proven that digital game based can be more effective than the normal lecture. (Phit-Huan Tan, 2007) The data of different infectious disease from the big data can reproduce the condition in history. Letting user to sit in the point of view of government, and the result lead to from the option chosen by user. With the technology of big data, the simulator can give question to user about different location and time. For instead, what would happen if COVID-19 broke out in other country and not China? Evaluating the different action taken by government of each country, and the different consequence would lead to. Most of the infectious disease has overcome by using mass immunization which is letting the majority infect the disease. (Foege WH, 1973) The immune system in human body could fight the virus. The major benefit of this method is the generation of antibody for that specific disease could prevent the spreading. This is most effective way of preventing infectious diseases which is also best way to defeat disease without any sequelae. However, the cost of immunization program would be too heavy for the country. During the early stage of the COVID-19 pandemic, the UK has announced about the plan of mass immunization. Boris Johnson the current prime minister of the UK letting people get sick and continue working instead locking down like most of the countries. But in 3 days after, the UK government realize that the medical facility could not afford huge wave of the patient rush in. The cancellation of the mass immunization program has been announced immediately. (KATHERINE DUNN, 2020) The different national conditions would need different emergency plan. Some order may not be suitable for some specific nation. Other example for this is US cannot lockdown the country for a long time, because US is one of the biggest import countries in the world. The lockdown would bring great damage to the retail which is a huge industry people in US rely on. The retail industry of US provides a huge percentage of employment rate. (Dennis M. Patten, 2019) Due to the lockdown order from the Whitehouse, the unemployment rate in April the unemployment rate increased by 10.3 percentage to 14.7 percent. The number of unemployment of reported individual has increased from 15.9 million to 23.1 million. (Labor, 2020) Therefore, the Whitehouse started to reopen the country at April 7thin serval stage to restore the damage from the lockdown. (Sarah Mervosh, 2020) These are the good case study in the simulator. Through this simulator data from the NASA database would be analyze and giving user example to learn about the political issue during the medical crisis.
On the other hand, the simulator can also combine medical factors, political factors and economic factor etc. to predict the action should be taken in the future. The policy that published by government would affect the future trend of the COVID-19 pandemic. Whether it is beneficial or harmful, this simulator would also foretell with the data from NASA. For example, the response to global medical pandemic in China Taiwan. The government of Taiwan has taken action other than lockdown and proactive testing. They also use the technology of Big Data Analysis and widely register personal medical condition of citizens. (Wang CJ, 2020) All the Taiwanese citizen are provided QR code for a free COVID-19 test which help to control the number of infection cases up to date. From the early experience of 2003 SARS, the Taiwan government has taken very early immigrate limitation and stopping foreign visitor and mainland Chinese visitor. All the entries from outside of Taiwan are required to strictly follow quarantine for 14 days to prevent oversea cases input. (Yi-Chi Wu, 2020) As the result of these action, the spike of infection has been flattening which reduce the pressure of the local medical facility. Most of the industries in China can back on track in a short period of time compare to other country. The serious damage in the economic is inevitable but it has been minimized to a significant point. The date of reopening the border and economic in advance compare to most of the country. (Hongzhi Gao, 2020) This is a successful example of anti-epidemic during this COVID-19 pandemic for future study. This valuable experience would also be analyzed in the simulator and giving instances for other nation to consult. In contrast, the action that taken in India government can be considered as delayed and underestimated. In the early stage of this pandemic, India government did not issue any interdict of border or testing for India citizens. Especially the terrible public health condition in India provides a petri dish for viruses. India is already experiencing a difficult health care situation before the COVID-19 pandemic. Centre for Global Health Research stated that “Infectious diseases accounted for 58% of all deaths among children aged 5 to 14 years. About 18% of deaths were due to diarrheal diseases, 10% due to pneumonia, 8% due to central nervous system infections, 4% due to measles, and 12% due to other infectious diseases.” (Morris SK, 2011) With these harsh conditions, India still did not take any action until March 25th issued movement restriction for 21 days. (Priyanka, 2020) The large amount of population and high population density making the pandemic much harder to overcome in India. (Mohak Gupta, 2020) The large number of poor populations occupy a large percentage of over 68% the India total population. (VILLAGES, 2020) This tragic example can also be analysis as a warning. The result of this would cause much more life lost and permanent damage to the national damage. The examination in the simulator could predict this condition for further study.
In conclusion, the infectious disease simulator could provide an efficient way of learning about this topic. Giving more examples and hypothesis to study in different aspects and point of views. Users learn about the basic knowledge of infectious disease for understanding the purpose of action taken by each government. The prediction of the future trend can also be investigated to prevent or reduce the cost of lives.
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