Microsoft launches Coronavirus website to help track the pandemic worldwide

As vel coronavirus continues to spre like wildfire across globe, Microsoft Bing team has rolled out a live web portal to track  infections worldwide and help keep people informed about pandemic. Users can access tracker at link here, which offers up-to-date information on infection statistics for each country.

web portal currently has a total of 168,835 confirmed instances, with 84,558 active cases, 77,761 recovered cases and 6,516 deaths. As of w, re are approximately 3,244 confirmed cases of coronavirus in United States with at least 61 reported cases of deaths. In India, total number of coronavirus cases has jumped to 110 over weekend, with Maharashtra reporting highest tally after Kerala.

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How does Microsoft COVID-19 tracker work?

coronavirus tracker comes with an interactive map which lets people on a particular country to find out specific number of cases and related articles from a number of different publishers. information is gared from a number of sources including World Health Organization (WHO), US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC).

Michael Schechter, General Manr for Bing Growth and Distribution at Microsoft, has said in a report to ZDNet that a lot of Bing folks h worked from home over past week to design a mapping and authoritative news resource for information on coronavirus.

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On or hand, Google is working on a COVID-19 screening website, which is currently being built by Verily. company has launched a pilot program and it is very limited in scope. site can only be accessed by people in Bay Area of California, as of w, and will only be available to US citizens when it’s up. And while re h been some confusion around Google's coronavirus portal, company later anunced that it is collaborating with US Government to develop a nationwide portal to get information on COVID-19 symptoms, risk, and testing information. Donald Trump h said in a recent press briefing that over 1,700 engineers have been working to build website.

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Im credits: bing.com/covid