Mapping the Changes on Incidence, Case Fatality Rates and Recovery Proportion of COVID-19 in Afghanistan Using Geographical Information Systems

Abstract

We read with great interest the article by Pradhan et al., about the current interventions for the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) prevention, discussing different strategies to be applied at individuals for avoiding the Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) transmission.We would like to compliment and discuss the importance of prevention and public health of the use of geographical information systems (GIS)-based mapping, recently applied in other few countries, now in this analysis, for Afghanistan. Even more, Afghanistan is a country where few studies have been so far published . For these reasons, we have developed epidemiological maps ofthe incidence rates using official populations, by provinces, as well for case fatality rates (CFR%), mortality rates, and the proportion of patients recovered, from COVID-19 in Afghanistan using GIS...7