Social distancing guidelines during the pandemic may be encouraging residents to keep their distance, but Bahrain’s space scientists are looking far beyond to secure our future.
Space researchers like space data analyst Shaima Shawwqi Almeer, and her peers at the National Space Science Agency (NSSA), have been developing their diverse skillsets and utilising space technologies to solve new problems more evident during the current pandemic.
Shaima told GulfWeekly: “The pandemic has actually given us more time and situations to continue our research. As part of the course I completed at the University of Twente, Netherlands, I worked on producing an atlas that highlights the current pandemic (COVID-19) situation in the GCC countries. The atlas includes visualisation of the coronavirus statistics within the region. The reason I chose this region was to showcase the capabilities and the readiness of our governments to face this challenge, and highlight that the recovery rate in Bahrain was the second highest in the world.”
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