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.
While
Google is still working on a coronavirus screening and tracking
website, Microsoft
Bing team has already launched a web portal for tracking COVID-19
infections worldwide.
The
website, accessible at bing.com/covid, provides up-to-date infection
statistics for each country.
The
COVID-19
Tracker currently lists 168,835 as total confirmed cases, 84,558
active cases, 77,761 recovered cases and 6,516 deaths.
There
are at least 3,244 confirmed cases of 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.
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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 has begun working on COVID-19-related portal for US citizens.
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