Microsoft releases `` COVID-19 tracker '', visually obtaining information on new coronavirus infection



The new type of coronavirus infection (COVID-19) is rapidly spreading in the EU and other places far away from the source, Wuhan, and

restrictions on going out are being taken in France, Belgium, the United States, and New York. . In response to growing interest in COVID-19, Microsoft's 'Bing' team has launched a web portal site, ' COVID-19 Tracker, ' which allows you to check infection status around the world from a map.

Bing COVID Tracker
https://www.bing.com/covid

When you actually access 'COVID-19 Tracker', it looks like this. On the map on the right, the areas with the highest number of infected people are displayed as red circles. At the time of writing the article, the spread of infection in the EU was continuing, so many red circles are displayed near the EU on the map as well.



The map can be enlarged or reduced from the +/- icon at the top right of the map. Below is a zoomed image of the swirling EU. The red circle in Italy, where the new coronavirus infection

exceeded 30,000, is particularly large. Hover your mouse cursor over the red circle to see the number of patients treated, the number recovered, and the number of deaths. The figures are based on information from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the World Health Organization (WHO), the European Center for Disease Control and Prevention (ECDC), and Wikipedia.



Clicking on the red circle expands the left column to show 'News related to the region' in addition to the total number of confirmed infections. At the time of article creation, the top of the news displayed by clicking on Italy was GIGAZINE's article '

Air pollution in Italy has been drastically reduced due to the influence of the new coronavirus, and a movie that shows it at a glance is also being released .' Articles such as ' New Coronavirus in Italy with over 30,000 infected people ' reported by NHK are not displayed in the news column, and it is unknown what algorithm is used to select the news to be displayed.



Scroll down the News column to see videos related to the area.



Next time, check the information on Japan. There are two red circles in Japan, but this is a separate conversion of information on infected people in Japan and information on the Diamond Princess who called to Japan after the outbreak of the new coronavirus was detected For. At the time of writing, the total number of infected people in Japan was 878. The number of patients treated was 686, the number recovered was 164, and the number of deaths was 28.



The news column looks something like this, the news displayed at the top is not only two weeks ago, but also GIGAZINE's `` Air pollution in Italy has dramatically decreased due to the influence of the new coronavirus, that thing A movie that can be seen at a glance is also being released. ' This article discusses the effects of the new coronavirus on air pollution in Italy and has nothing to do with Japan. And news from major Japanese media companies such as NHK and

announcements from the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare were not displayed in the news column.



Regarding `` COVID-19 Tracker '', The Verge of IT news site stated, `` Although information is updated every hour, the displayed news is timely to understand the situation of the pandemic of the new coronavirus. also that there is a also not say 'to be useful has been reported .

Other websites that provide a visual understanding of the new coronavirus infection include Coronavirus 2020-nCoV, created by the Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at Johns Hopkins University, and…

A map `` Coronavirus 2020-nCoV '' that shows at a glance the momentum of the new coronavirus that spreads infection-gigazine
https://gigazine.net/news/20200127-coronavirus-2020-ncov-map/



'BNO Noticias Coronavirus tracker' by Dutch international news agency BNO News has been released.

A map `` BNO Noticias Coronavirus tracker '' that shows at a glance the epidemic situation of the new coronavirus-gigazine



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