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<article article-type="research-article" dtd-version="1.3" xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xml:lang="en"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">gesj</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title xml:lang="en">GEOGRAPHY, ENVIRONMENT, SUSTAINABILITY</journal-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="ru"><trans-title>GEOGRAPHY, ENVIRONMENT, SUSTAINABILITY</trans-title></trans-title-group></journal-title-group><issn pub-type="ppub">2071-9388</issn><issn pub-type="epub">2542-1565</issn><publisher><publisher-name>Russian Geographical Society</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.24057/2071-9388-2021-088</article-id><article-id custom-type="elpub" pub-id-type="custom">gesj-2190</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="heading"><subject>Research Article</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="section-heading" xml:lang="en"><subject>Special Issue "Geography of the COVID-19 pandemic: public health, economic and environmental consequences"</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title>Towards A Strategic Approach Of Covid-19 Cluster Web Mapping In Malaysia</article-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="ru"><trans-title></trans-title></trans-title-group></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="yes"><name-alternatives><name name-style="western" xml:lang="en"><surname>Talib</surname><given-names>Noorfatekah</given-names></name></name-alternatives><bio xml:lang="en"><p>Centre of Studies for Surveying Science and Geomatics, Faculty of Architecture, Planning and Surveying</p><p>02600, Arau, Perlis</p></bio><email xlink:type="simple">noorf492@uitm.edu.my</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff-1"/></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="yes"><name-alternatives><name name-style="western" xml:lang="en"><surname>Fuad</surname><given-names>Nur Nabila Mohd</given-names></name></name-alternatives><bio xml:lang="en"><p>Centre of Studies for Surveying Science and Geomatics, Faculty of Architecture, Planning and Surveying</p><p>02600, Arau, Perlis</p></bio><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff-1"/></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="yes"><name-alternatives><name name-style="western" xml:lang="en"><surname>Saad</surname><given-names>Nurhafiza Md</given-names></name></name-alternatives><bio xml:lang="en"><p>Centre of Studies for Surveying Science and Geomatics, Faculty of Architecture, Planning and Surveying</p><p>02600, Arau, Perlis</p></bio><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff-1"/></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="yes"><name-alternatives><name name-style="western" xml:lang="en"><surname>Zaki</surname><given-names>Nurul Ain Mohd</given-names></name></name-alternatives><bio xml:lang="en"><p>Centre of Studies for Surveying Science and Geomatics, Faculty of Architecture, Planning and Surveying</p><p>02600, Arau, Perlis</p></bio><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff-1"/></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="yes"><name-alternatives><name name-style="western" xml:lang="en"><surname>Hashim</surname><given-names>Nurhanisah</given-names></name></name-alternatives><bio xml:lang="en"><p>Centre of Studies for Surveying Science and Geomatics, Faculty of Architecture, Planning and Surveying</p><p>Selangor</p></bio><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff-2"/></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="yes"><name-alternatives><name name-style="western" xml:lang="en"><surname>Abdullah</surname><given-names>Mohd Amsyar</given-names></name></name-alternatives><bio xml:lang="en"><p>43300 Seri Kembangan, Selangor</p></bio><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff-3"/></contrib></contrib-group><aff xml:lang="en" id="aff-1"><institution>Universiti Teknologi MARA Cawangan Perlis, Kampus Arau</institution><country>Malaysia</country></aff><aff xml:lang="en" id="aff-2"><institution>Universiti Teknologi MARA Shah Alam</institution><country>Malaysia</country></aff><aff xml:lang="en" id="aff-3"><institution>Affinivo Consultant Plt</institution><country>Malaysia</country></aff><pub-date pub-type="collection"><year>2021</year></pub-date><pub-date pub-type="epub"><day>29</day><month>12</month><year>2021</year></pub-date><volume>14</volume><issue>4</issue><fpage>148</fpage><lpage>154</lpage><permissions><copyright-statement>Copyright &amp;#x00A9; Talib N., Fuad N., Saad N., Zaki N., Hashim N., Abdullah M., 2021</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2021</copyright-year><copyright-holder xml:lang="ru">Talib N., Fuad N., Saad N., Zaki N., Hashim N., Abdullah M.</copyright-holder><copyright-holder xml:lang="en">Talib N., Fuad N., Saad N., Zaki N., Hashim N., Abdullah M.</copyright-holder><license xml:lang="ru" license-type="creative-commons-attribution" xlink:href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" xlink:type="simple"><license-p>Данная работа распространяется под лицензией Creative Commons Attribution 4.0.</license-p></license><license xml:lang="en" license-type="creative-commons-attribution" xlink:href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" xlink:type="simple"><license-p>This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.</license-p></license></permissions><self-uri xlink:href="https://ges.rgo.ru/jour/article/view/2190">https://ges.rgo.ru/jour/article/view/2190</self-uri><abstract><p>The world was shocked by an unprecedented outbreak caused by coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). In Malaysia, it started with the largest number of COVID-19 cases with the first wave of infection on 25 January 2020. The objectives of this paper are to obtain the perspective of the respondents about the need for web-mapping in the form of mapping the geospatial data in Malaysia and to visualize the current online datasets of COVID-19 disease case clusters. The study area would cover the entire Malaysia since a rapidly increasing number of citizens were affected by this virus. To be specific, this study focused on the active clusters of COVID-19 in Malaysia. The data were freely shared in real-time by referring to the Ministry of Health (MOH) channel. The hotspots map were explored using the Map Editor by Cloud GIS. The approach has been illustrated using a dataset of whole Malaysia which are locally transmitted confirmed cases in four phases of COVID-19 wave in Malaysia. This study is significant to raise public awareness of the virus, especially among Malaysian citizens. It can provide an accurate estimation of the cluster tracking of the COVID-19 system by using geospatial technology. Therefore, people are more concerned and followed all the Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) provided by the government to prevent the spread of COVID-19.</p></abstract><kwd-group xml:lang="en"><kwd>COVID-19</kwd><kwd>cluster cases</kwd><kwd>geospatial data</kwd><kwd>GIS</kwd></kwd-group></article-meta></front><back><ref-list><title>References</title><ref id="cit1"><label>1</label><citation-alternatives><mixed-citation xml:lang="ru">Amirudin Shari (2020). 5 Kluster Jangkitan Covid-19 Terbesar di Malaysia. Available at: https://www.amirudinshari.com/posts/5-klusterjangkitan-covid-19-terbesar-di-malaysia.</mixed-citation><mixed-citation xml:lang="en">Amirudin Shari (2020). 5 Kluster Jangkitan Covid-19 Terbesar di Malaysia. 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