A review on current status of COVID19 cases in Maharashtra state of India using GIS: a case study

The coronavirus is showing its strength and spreading exponentially in all the corners of India. Due to this, India is moving under a pandemic situation and most of the states are badly suffering from it. The Maharashtra state in India is a highly infected state and has maximum number of COVID19 (Corona Virus Disease 2019) cases. Therefore, this paper aims to study the current scenario of COVID19 cases in Maharashtra state using the geo-visualization techniques. The paper deals with the district wise current situations showing through compiled maps of COVID19 cases and also presents the detailed ward wise map of COVID19 cases of Mumbai city which has the highest number of cases in Maharashtra state. This review briefly covers the introduction, current cases, recovered cases, deceased cases, predictions, supports and preventive measures taken by authorities, and some basic advices and suggestions; however these are subjected to change in due course of time as is the number of cases and mortality.