Design And Implementation of Web Based Virtual Test System for Coronavirus (COVID-19) Epidemic

Recently, information and communications technology have been considered essential tools for dealing with the crisis of COVID-19 through their attempt to limit the spread of this pandemic by using modern technologies and unconventional electronic systems that work on analyzing and diagnosing the disease. This paper proposes a virtual test system for COVID-19 based on web applications. The proposed approach is a website that enables anyone to do a hypothetical test for COVID-19. The design aims to diagnose cases of infection before patients go to the hospital, resulting in them either staying at home or going to the hospital to reduce the burden on the medical staff. This system gives virtual results and diagnoses of symptoms by virtual correction, displaying the result instantly and storing it in the database. The results obtained from 325 samples showed the successful performance of the proposed system in terms of saving time and improving efficiency. The accuracy of answers was 80%, and the percentages of symptoms associated with COVID-19 were as follows: 49.8% fever, 50.8% cough, 46.5% shortness of breath, 49.2% fatigue, 12.6% sore throat, 16.9% headache, 39.1% loss of taste or smell, 10.8% runny nose, 7.6% nausea and vomiting, 8.9% diarrhea, 9.5% chest pain or pressure, and 16.3% muscle or body aches. The proposed system minimized fear in a large number of people who thought they were infected with COVID-19.