In April 2020, the French National Research Institute for Sustainable Development (IRD) team based at the Institut Pasteur of Cambodia (IPC) started to develop a national dashboard for Cambodia, based on the COVID-19 testing performed by IPC, in connection with the Ministry of Health. The IRD team assisted the IPC Virology Laboratory to automate the transfer of COVID-19 information to the Emerging Operating Center of the Cambodian CDC, and produced indicators and graphs. With this information in hands, they also designed an internal dashboard at IPC to follow the COVID-19 diagnosis activities at the Virology Unit. Its functionalities were, at first, specifically to answer the needs of the unit. Based on this first model, the team finally developed a regional dashboard incorporating all of the ECOMORE countries.
Since 2020, the access to COVID information has changed regularly from country to country (changes in shared data, accuracy, data hosting sites). Generally speaking, the data shared has become less accurate and updated less regularly. The regional dashboard thus provides:
- In the general tab: a summarized view of the situation and trends for the ECOMORE countries, with a view by indicator (cases, deaths, tests, vaccination, mobility). This tab allows to compare the waves in the different countries.
- In specific country tabs: a global view of the indicators together. It is especially interesting to observe the movement of populations (estimated from Google Mobility data) in contrast with the different waves and national restrictions.
The dashboard is automatically self-updated on a daily basis and is a powerful tool for partners and countries to follow and act in accordance with key indicators of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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