Development of a Covid-19 Information Dashboard to Access the Health Care Resources and Requirements Online

With the emergence of coronavirus and the rapidly increasing number of cases, we observed that people were suffering from a lack of information about where to source critical requirements such as oxygen cylinders, beds, ambulance service, and ventilators. In this research paper and project, the authors have designed and developed an interactive information dashboard to access the availability of these resources and requirements at different locations across India from myriad sources. The information dashboard will show information for all the states across India. The dashboard visualizes the number of corona cases, hospital beds, blood bank, etc. The end-users and the COVID-19 support team can imagine all the requirements in the dashboard that is factual and credible within their vicinity from multiple information sources. The user need not search various information sites to search for different conditions. The project collates the data of other requirements from primary sources of information like Twitter and government websites and lists them on the dashboard. The authors used open-source programming and database technologies to display the data per user requirements. The dashboard was helpful to the end-users during COVID-19 times in terms of convenient accessibility and efficiency.