Google Maps adds the COVID-19 level, with which you can view all critical coronavirus spread data for specific areas.
Google announced today a new layer on its Maps, which will provide critical information about the number of COVID-19 cases that have been read in a given region. The goal of the new feature is to help them users to understand the prevailing COVID-19 situation in an area before traveling there.
The service has not yet reached mobile phones, but you should expect to see it within this week. Google Maps users will be able to see a color one codification for areas with new cases of COVID-19, per 100.000 people, averaged over seven days. There will also be a label showing if the number of cases is increasing or decreasing.
The data will come from various sources, such as Johns Hopkins, New York Times and Wikipedia. These organizations, in turn, receive their data from local and intergovernmental organizations such as the World Health Organization, government ministries of health, state and local services health and hospitals. Most of these sources already provide information to Google Search.
Maps will display national data in 220 countries and regions where the navigation application is available. Information at city, state, county or county level will also be visible, where possible. The new level will be released on Android and iOS worldwide.
To see it you have to go to Google Maps and press the level button in the upper right corner of your screen and click on "COVID-19 info".
