Published 19:03 IST, March 24th 2020

What is Covidnearyou.org? Know how to test your symptoms in the current situation

What is Covidnearyou? How does it function? Is it a self-testing website for Coronavirus pandemic? Read ahead to find out all your answers.

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world is fighting against Coronavirus pandemic which has led to many invative ideas. se ideas are helping government of different countries to spre information about COVID-19 outbreak widely. Amid all of misinformation that has been spreing across globe, testing and finding affected patients has become a task. So, sites like Covidnearyou.org helps people self test mselves anywhere in world.

What is Covidnearyou? 

Covidnearyou.org is a USA-based Coronavirus tracker website which enables a user to self-test mself easily through site. website holds information about many things related to Coronavirus cases and spre of virus as per Zipcode and more. It provides Americans with a chance to gain Coronavirus updates as per ir location.

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Source: Covidnearyou.org

Coronavirus tracker site follows a simple interface which asks user "How are you feeling?" If you answer is "I am t feeling better." n self-test process starts. Covidnearyou.org website provides numerous options to choose from. se options consist of fever, cold, cough and more to help site and user understand what person is going through.

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Once person has simply chosen symptoms y are facing, Covidnearyou asks m questions which are indirectly related to Coronavirus outbreak. Once process is complete and if person is suspected to have COVID-19, Coronavirus tracker site shows location of nearby testing place to individual.

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Who developed website?

Coronavirus website is developed by several volunteers from Google, Apple, Amazon, MongoDB, CloudFlare, Alphabet and or tech companies. team was formed by Prem Ramaswami, he of product at Alphabet’s Sidewalk Labs. Later, John Brownstein, an epidemiologist and chief invation officer at Boston Children’s Hospital joined quest to do something about it. two came up with idea to build a website similar to Flunearyou and n gared or tech geniuses to make ir idea a reality.

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19:03 IST, March 24th 2020