HEMAYAH: A Proposed Mobile Application System for Tracking and Preventing COVID-19 Outbreaks in Saudi Arabia

Alwashmi, R.; Alharbi, N.; Alabdali, A.; Mashat, A.

Like many countries worldwide, numerous companies and business in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) have closed to stop the spread of COVID-19, resulting in losses of jobs and income. To allow reopening, the Saudi Ministry of Health is actively developing technologies to facilitate early detection. Here, a mobile application system for tracking COVID-19 is proposed that connects a scanner with databases from the Ministry of Health and hospitals to check the status of an individual before entering a location or socializing with others. The main goals of the system are to protect the economy of the country from the impact of COVID-19 by allowing companies and sectors to function continually;to allow cleared individuals to live normally by giving them the ability to access government facilities such as hospitals, schools, mosques, and universities without fear of infection;to preserve social communication between families;and to provide a set of detailed data to aid COVID-19 pandemic analyses, including daily situation updates, pandemic curves and statistics. © 2021, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.