Measuring of the COVID-19 Based on Time-Geography

Zhangcai Yin, Wei Huang, Shen Ying, Panli Tang, Ziqiang Kang and Kuan Huang
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Zhangcai Yin: School of Resources and Environmental Engineering, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan 430070, China
Wei Huang: School of Resources and Environmental Engineering, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan 430070, China
Shen Ying: School of Resource and Environmental Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430070, China
Panli Tang: School of Resources and Environmental Engineering, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan 430070, China
Ziqiang Kang: School of Resources and Environmental Engineering, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan 430070, China
Kuan Huang: School of Resources and Environmental Engineering, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan 430070, China

IJERPH, 2021, vol. 18, issue 19, 1-19

Abstract: At the end of 2019, the COVID-19 pandemic began to emerge on a global scale, including China, and left deep traces on all societies. The spread of this virus shows remarkable temporal and spatial characteristics. Therefore, analyzing and visualizing the characteristics of the COVID-19 pandemic are relevant to the current pressing need and have realistic significance. In this article, we constructed a new model based on time-geography to analyze the movement pattern of COVID-19 in Hebei Province. The results show that as time changed COVID-19 presented an obvious dynamic distribution in space. It gradually migrated from the southwest region of Hebei Province to the northeast region. The factors affecting the moving patterns may be the migration and flow of population between and within the province, the economic development level and the development of road traffic of each city. It can be divided into three stages in terms of time. The first stage is the gradual spread of the epidemic, the second is the full spread of the epidemic, and the third is the time and again of the epidemic. Finally, we can verify the accuracy of the model through the standard deviation ellipse and location entropy.

Keywords: time geography; COVID-19; space-time prism; space-time path (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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