Google launches new COVID-19 Global Case Mapper for journalists

Google in collaboration with Stanford University has launched COVID-19 Global Case Mapper which allows the local reporters to embed a map of their area or even a national case map. This can be viewed in more than 80 languages and has data for 176 countries.

San Francisco: Google in collaboration with Stanford University has launched a global COVID-19 map that makes it possible for journalists to embed up-to-date visualisations of the pandemic on their sites for readers and even the map shows COVID-19 cases about population.

Unlike other coronavirus case maps, the ‘COVID-19 Global Case Mapper' allows local reporters to embed a map of their area or even a national case map.

Google launches new COVID-19 Global Case Mapper for journalists

Earlier this year, the team launched a US version of the map and the new version expands that embeddable view across the globe through data for 176 countries in addition to the US, plus additional state & regional data for 18 countries. The team has used Google Translate so the experience can be viewed in more than 80 languages.

The data is from the New York Times' open COVID-19 county dataset and the COVID-19 Data Repository by the Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at Johns Hopkins University.

Even Stanford University's Big Local News and Pitch Interactive have launched the new global map with support from the Google News Initiative (GNI).

"More in-depth, country-level data will be added over time as the map is developed further and as journalists around the world use it to explain how the pandemic has spread," Rogers said.

According to Johns Hopkins University, the overall number of global Coronavirus cases has surpassed the 20 million mark, while the deaths have increased to more than 734,000.

(Inputs from IANS)