The app is available on Bing and also includes news

Mar 16, 2020 05:01 GMT  ·  By

Microsoft has released a free COVID-19 tracker for desktop and mobile on the Bing search engine, with the essential information on the number of cases displayed in one clean UI.

The COVID-19 tracker developed by Microsoft is available online at bing.com/covid and shows the map of the world along with other information such as the total confirmed cases, active cases, recovered cases, and fatal cases.

You can also see statistics per each country and zoom in to view additional information for a specific region.

Similar services are already available online, but Microsoft tries to make this tracker a central hub for keeping an eye on the coronavirus outbreak, so it also includes news and videos regarding the infection.

Microsoft says it’s taking the data from CDC, WHO, ECDC, and Wikipedia, and also displays last update information – at the time of writing, for example, the map was last updated 11 minutes ago.

The new tracker is also optimized for mobile, so you can access all the data by pointing your smartphone’s browser to the link mentioned above.

Microsoft and COVID-19

Microsoft is one of the companies hit by COVID-19, as the company decided to cancel several tech events, including the BUILD developer conference.

Microsoft Build is Redmond’s biggest tech event, as the company uses it to get in touch with developers and provide an early look at new software, including at improvements planned for Windows 10. This year, however, Microsoft will hold the event online exclusively in an attempt to eliminate the risk of infection.

Other tech giants have taken similar measures, including Google, Apple, and Facebook, all of which have either canceled their events completely or moved online for a live streaming that would allow the world to watch their announcements without the risk of contracting the virus.

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