Comparative Analysis of COVID-19 Transmission Patterns in Three Chinese Regions vs. South Korea,Italy and Iran

Junyu He; Guangwei Chen; Yutong Jiang; Runjie Jin; Mingjun He; Ashton Shortridge; Jiaping Wu; George Christakos

Companies  High tech industry used the latest technology (big data analysis, cloud computing etc.) to locate infected and suspected individuals.  The industry help built online health reporting and monitoring systems, such as the color health code system mentioned above.  It donated funds and supplies for the medical community, the local governments and for emergency health management (e.g., the Alibaba company donated 1 billion yuan).  The industry adopted some of its operations to the environment created by the epidemic (e.g., it used online procedures to sign its contracts).  Some companies switched their production lines to manufacture medical supplies (e.g., before the COVID-19 outbreak in Wenzhou city there was only one company manufacturing face masks, but by February 25 th there were more than 25 companies capable of manufacturing face masks with the production being increased 20 times).  Companies setup a health reporting and monitoring system for their own staff, which is similar to that of local governments and communities (e.g., at a company's entrance the staff's body temperature was measured and their hands disinfected).