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Twitter Interaction to Analyze Covid-19 Impact in Ghana, Africa from March to July

Chire Saire, J. E.; Panford-Quainoo, K.

2020-08-31 public and global health
10.1101/2020.08.25.20182048 medRxiv
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Present pandemic generated by Coronavirus Covid-19 has stopped the world, from Tourism, Business, Education and more. Actually, there are reported cases in every continent from America to Europe, from Europe to Australia. Africa is one continent in process of development with a variety of languages, limitations/problems and of course, abundance of culture. The aim of this paper is to analyze the impact in one country located in the middle-west, named Ghana. The data source for the analysis is Twitter(Social Network) and the analysis is using a Text Mining approach. Besides, a composition of graphics are presented considering Google search, daily reported cases. The study is exploratory to know what topics are most frequent in Great Accra Region. The conclusions are: Twitter is useful to get data for the analysis, and the interest of user from Ghana was high at the beginning but it was decreasing from April until July, probably the people is tired or adapting themselves to the actual situation.

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