Covid-19 tracker: As the novel coronavirus spreads like wildfire across countries, Microsoft’s Bing team has launched a web portal to track its progress worldwide.
The COVID-19 Tracker currently lists 1,359,398 as total confirmed cases, 994,344 active cases, 289,109 recovered cases and 75,945 deaths.
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).
The website (launched by Microsoft) 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.
An interactive map allows site visitors to click on the country to see the specific number of cases where the website, accessible at bing.com/covid, provides up-to-date infection statistics for each country.
Microsoft announced the website two days after US President Donald Trump said Google had begun working on the 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. There are at least 3,244 confirmed cases of a novel coronavirus in the US and at least 61 deaths.
“Lots of Bing folks worked (from home) this past week to create a mapping and authoritative news resource for COVID19 info,” Michael Schechter, General Manager for Bing Growth and Distribution at Microsoft, was quoted as saying in a ZDNet report on Sunday.
An interactive map allows site visitors to click on the country to see the specific number of cases and related articles from a variety of publishers.
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.
