Abstract

In December 2019, corona virus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has broken out in China. Understanding the distribution of disease at the national level contributes to the formulation of public health policies. There are several studies that investigating the influencing factors on distribution of COVID-19 in China. However, more influencing factors need to be considered to improve our understanding about the current epidemic. Moreover, in the absence of effective medicine or vaccine, the Chinese government introduced a series of non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs). However, assessing and predicting the effectiveness of these interventions requires further study. In this paper, we used statistical techniques, correlation analysis and GIS mapping expression method to analyze the spatial and temporal distribution characteristics and the influencing factors of the COVID-19 in mainland China. The results showed that the spread of outbreaks in China’s non-Hubei provinces can be divided into five stages. Stage I is the initial phase of the COVID-19 outbreak; in stage II the new peak of the epidemic was observed; in stage III the outbreak was contained and new cases decreased; there was a rebound in stage IV, and stage V led to level off. Moreover, the cumulative confirmed cases were mainly concentrated in the southeastern part of China, and the epidemic in the cities with large population flows from Wuhan was more serious. In addition, statistically significant correlations were found between the prevalence of the epidemic and the temperature, rainfall and relative humidity. To evaluate the NPIs, we simulated the prevalence of the COVID-19 based on an improved SIR model and under different prevention intensity. It was found that our simulation results were compatible with the observed values and the parameter of the time function in the improved SIR model for China is a = − 0.0058. The findings and methods of this study can be effective for predicting and managing the epidemics and can be used as an aid for decision makers to control the current and future epidemics.

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Title
Spatio-temporal distribution characteristics and influencing factors of COVID-19 in China
Author
Chen, Youliang 1 ; Li, Qun 2 ; Karimian Hamed 2 ; Chen Xunjun 3 ; Li, Xiaoming 4 

 Jiangxi University of Science and Technology, School of Civil and Surveying and Mapping Engineering, Ganzhou, China (GRID:grid.440790.e) (ISNI:0000 0004 1764 4419); Central South University, School of Geosciences and Info Physics, Changsha, China (GRID:grid.216417.7) (ISNI:0000 0001 0379 7164) 
 Jiangxi University of Science and Technology, School of Civil and Surveying and Mapping Engineering, Ganzhou, China (GRID:grid.440790.e) (ISNI:0000 0004 1764 4419) 
 Jiangxi University of Science and Technology, School of Information Engineering, Ganzhou, China (GRID:grid.440790.e) (ISNI:0000 0004 1764 4419) 
 Ganzhou People’s Hospital Jiangxi, Department of Spinal Surgery, Ganzhou, China (GRID:grid.459559.1) 
Publication year
2021
Publication date
2021
Publisher
Nature Publishing Group
e-ISSN
20452322
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
ProQuest document ID
2488773061
Copyright
© The Author(s) 2021. This work is published under http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (the “License”). Notwithstanding the ProQuest Terms and Conditions, you may use this content in accordance with the terms of the License.