Geospatial Distribution and Trend Analysis of Corona Pandemic (Covid-19) in West Bengal, India

Novel Corona Virus or COVID-19 a highly infectious disease was originated in Wuhan city of Hubei province of China and rapidly spread across the world. This global pandemic creates a major challenge in respect to public health infrastructures around the world. This study has prepared on West Bengal, which is located in the eastern part of India. The aim of the study is to analyze the trends of outbreak and spatial distribution of COVID-19 pandemic with the help of spatial analysis tools of GIS software. Monitoring active ties using GIS spatial analysis is very important to control such as a COVID-19 virus spreading problem. Currently 2377 confirmed cases of COVID-19 have been reported in the state. Out of which 1394 are active patients, 768 patients have cured and discharged, 143 patients died and 72 patients died due to Comorbidity. There has been increasing trends found in all the attributes, i.e. confirmed cases, Cases load, recovery, death and test per million etc. of COVID-19 in last 8 weeks. Only the delta rates have declined over the last few weeks, which indicate that the cases of COVID-19 will be declined as compared to cured or recovered cases in near future. The prediction IDW maps of COVID-19 have shown that the area under extremely affected and dangerous lies in few districts namely Kolkata, Howrah, part of Hooghly, North and South 24 Parganas in case confirmed cases, active cases and deaths. These areas are also under the highly healing zone in respect to number of cured patients.