Abstract:
Corona is one of the hot topics spoken today in the whole world. This severe
respiratory disease is known as Covid-19. The outbreak of this disease began in
Wuhan Province of China in December 2019. The spread of this deadly virus was
very fast. It has spread crossing over the provinces, states and the countries. Its
spreading even over the continents; the North America and the European countries
within 15 days. As on 2020.01.28, 2798 patients were identified worldwide. out of
which 80 were dead. Since then, it from 2019.12.31 onwards up to 2020.08.14,
Covid-19 has spread to almost all the countries of the World. More than 16 million
patients have been identified during this 7 month Worldwide. Among them, 9.24
million people have recovered while 644 Thousand deaths have been recorded. Sri
Lanka reported the first case in a Chinese tourist on 27th January 2020 and
subsequently in a local person on 11th March, 2020. The Sri Lankan Government
aimed at controlling the pandemic, the government enforced a strict strategy of
case detection, identification of contacts, quarantine, travel restrictions and
isolation. In Sri Lanka, 2882 cases have been reported up to date. 2391 people have
recovered from the deadly virus while 11 deaths have been recorded so far
(09.09.2020). The aim to this research is to graphically explain the spread of covid-
19 in Sri Lanka. The research was conducted based on the administrative units of
Sri Lanka. The secondary data was collected from the minutes of World Health
Organization (WHO), minutes of (Epidemiology Unit) Sri Lankan, Department of
health, Newspapers and Internet sources. The data were analyzed using ArcGIS
10.3 for visualizing the spatial pattern of the Covid-19. Moreover, this research is
designed so that Covid-19 could be completely eradicated from the country by
creating awareness among people by graphically explaining the spread of this
disease in various part of the Island by analyzing the data using GIS Technologies.
