New tool launched to track Covid-19
The South African Covid-19 Modelling Consortium (SACMC) launched the SACMC Epidemic Explorer dashboard on Tuesday.
The board was developed to assist the public to understand COVID-19 risks and make educated decisions.
It also aims to monitor the pandemic and alert the public of new figures and will analyse district and provincial level and identify second waves.
The SA #COVID19 Modelling Consortium (SACMC) team is live right now introducing the dashboard to media, to assist the public in better understanding the risks. #StopThe2ndWave pic.twitter.com/SWvDpBya2O
— NICD (@nicd_sa) December 15, 2020
Dr Sheetal Silal says the dashboard consists of three threshold metric, sustained increase monitoring and hospital admissions data.
Silal says the site will be updated every two days.
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"As new data comes in every day, there's a process that new data needs to be geolocated and checked. So we will be updating the dashboard three times a week.
"We are aiming for Monday, Wednesday and Friday schedule," says Silal.
She says this could be reviewed should new information become available.
"Or should there be a sudden super-spreader event that requires daily monitoring then we will change the schedule".
The site is available also on mobile internet, although PC and laptops are advised due to the size of the dashboard.
