Abstract

Maslichah Mafruchati

The use of drugs for treating Covid-19 causes several side effects to patients.Plants can be used as an herb in treating COVID withoutserious side effects. This study has an objectiveto observethe relation between trends of information about dates, the reason that caused the trends, as well as its benefit to COVID cases in samples of the study. The samples are Indonesia and Saudi Arabia. The inclusive criteria of samples are topic related to dates used on the internet and popularity points of information about date palm. The data are analyzed using Vosviewer software to find out how strong the relevance of certain topics with date palm. The result shows that trends are more robust in Saudi than in Indonesia. The relevance point about dates in Saudi reaches 14 while Indonesia is 8.05. One of the reasons because dates have been consumed by Saudi people since ancient times, while Indonesialater. Another reason is because Saudis are mostly Muslims, while Indonesia consists of multiple religions. The result also shows that COVID cases in Saudi are decreased more than Indonesia