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

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Intelligent Computing

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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.

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The author acknowledgments the financial support provided by King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology (General Directorate for Financing and Grants) to (King Abdulaziz University- Rabigh) to implement this work through Fast Track Program For COVID-19 Research Project No. 5-20-01-009-0092.

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Alwashmi, R., Alharbi, N., Alabdali, A., Mashat, A. (2021). HEMAYAH: A Proposed Mobile Application System for Tracking and Preventing COVID-19 Outbreaks in Saudi Arabia. In: Arai, K. (eds) Intelligent Computing. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 285. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-80129-8_3

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