Microsoft launches COVID-19 tracker, Alphabet's Verily puts up screening website

Major tech companies are joining the fight against the coronavirus outbreak. 

Microsoft's Bing team has built a tracker for COVID-19, the official term for the disease caused by the virus, located at www.bing.com/covid. 

The site, launched Sunday, features a live map and tracks total confirmed cases of COVID-19 as well as cases per country. Click on a country and you'll get more information about the virus outbreak there, with numbers of active/recovered/fatal cases, as well as news and videos. For the U.S., you'll also get a breakdown of confirmed cases per state. 

The site doesn't offer anything significantly different from similar trackers we've seen — Johns Hopkins university's live map is still one of the best resources out there — but it's fast, clean and mobile friendly. Also, the "News" tab for individual countries currently doesn't show anything.  Read more...