As the novel coronavirus spreads like wildfire across countries, Microsoft‘s Bing team has launched a web portal to track its progress worldwide.
The website provides up-to-date infection statistics for each country. An interactive map allows users to click on the country to see the specific number of cases and related articles from a variety of publishers.
According to sources, data is being aggregated from sources like the World Health Organization (WHO), the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC).
Microsoft announced the website two days after US President Donald Trump said Google had begun working on COVID-19-related portal for US citizens.
Google’s website is being built by Verily, a subsidiary of Alphabet focused on healthcare services. “More than 1,700 engineers are currently working on the site,” Trump said during a press briefing last week.
The tool will triage people who are concerned about their COVID-19 risk into testing sites based on guidance from public health officials and test availability.
The number of coronavirus cases in India rose to 110 on Sunday, with Maharashtra reporting the highest tally followed by Kerala. Over 450 stranded Indians have so far been flown back from Italy and Iran, the two worst-affected countries after China, and quarantined.
Globally, the virus has now affected almost 2 lakh people, and has caused over 6,500 deaths.
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