The COVID-19 pandemic has the potential to dramatically change our customers’ security and video surveillance system needs. Where past concerns were primarily focused on intrusion detection, shoplifting and/or vandalism, and life safety, now added to these issues are concerns about the spreading of the coronavirus from proximity to an infected person.
Any location or event that may cause numbers of people to come together is potentially dangerous for virus transmission. For example, it was reported that the large-scale COVID-19 infection that hit northern Italy was traced to a soccer match where approximately 40,000 people attended; a portion of attendees got infected and then returned to their homes, subsequently spreading the disease to their families and work spaces.