Department of Public Health, Ministry of Health, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Computer, Electrical and Mathematical Sciences and Engineering Division, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal, Saudi Arabia.
Int Health. 2021 Sep 3;13(5):383-398. doi: 10.1093/inthealth/ihab037.
When it emerged in late 2019, COVID-19 was carried via travelers to Germany, France and Italy, where freedom of movement accelerated its transmission throughout Europe. However, effective non-pharmaceutical interventions introduced by European governments led to containment of the rapid increase in cases within European nations. Electronic searches were performed to obtain the number of confirmed cases, incident rates and non-pharmaceutical government measures for each European country. The spread and impact of non-pharmaceutical interventions throughout Europe were assessed and visualized. Specifically, heatmaps were used to represent the number of confirmed cases and incident rates for each of the countries over time. In addition, maps were created showing the number of confirmed cases and incident rates in Europe on three different dates (15 March, 15 April and 15 May 2020), which allowed us to assess the geographic and temporal patterns of the disease.
当 COVID-19 于 2019 年末出现时，旅行者将其带到了德国、法国和意大利，在这些国家，人员自由流动加速了其在整个欧洲的传播。然而，欧洲政府采取的有效非药物干预措施使得欧洲各国的病例快速增长得到了控制。通过电子搜索获得了每个欧洲国家的确诊病例数、发病率和非药物政府措施。评估和可视化了非药物干预措施在整个欧洲的传播和影响。具体来说，使用热图来表示每个国家随时间推移的确诊病例数和发病率。此外，还创建了地图，显示了欧洲在三个不同日期（2020 年 3 月 15 日、4 月 15 日和 5 月 15 日）的确诊病例数和发病率，这使我们能够评估疾病的地理和时间模式。
