A web application to monitor COVID-19 cases in refugee camps of Greece
Website: https://camps.covid19response.gr
The OpenDataRef platform, represents a tool that investigates and visualizes public open data related with the spread of coronavirus pandemic COVID-19, in the accommodation structures of refugees, immigrants and asylum seekers in Greece. The platform has been developed by members of the voluntary initiative Covid-19 Response Greece in collaboration with the MSc “Global Health – Disaster Medicine”, Medical School, National & Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA). The public open data that are presented through the platform, are collected from the available databases of national public bodies and international organizations (see “Data Sources”) in almost real time.
The data are provided through the open data service for the spread of COVID-19 in Greece Coronavirus Greece API, which has been also developed by a voluntary team of Covid-19 Response Greece. The scientific supervision along with the management of the completeness and reliability of the data are supervised by the MSc “Global Health – Disaster Medicine”, Medical School, National & Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA). The whole data comes from reports of the National Public Health Organization (NPHO), as well as reports of the UNCHR.