These COVID-19 trackers map the spread of infection by country, state and district

Chennai: As the number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 infection in India keep rising, websites create especially for the purpose are tracking facts and tracing the spread of the contagion on maps of districts, states and the world. Let’s look into some of the interactive trackers.

Covindia.netlify.com

Covindia.netlify.com offers you one of the most detailed visual representations among existing coronavirus trackers. It puts the info on an interactive district-wise map of India. The full total number of instances and the number of folks who died of coronavirus arrive on the screen when you hover over the district.

The COVID-19 tracker was put together by a small number of students and professors of a Hyderabad-based engineering college, Mahindra Ecole Centrale, using trusted sources including the MoHFW, Kerala’s Directorate of Health Services and newspaper reports.

The tracker depends on artificial intelligence in the form of “automatic crawlers”, which trawl through news articles online to recognize coronavirus key words and alert student volunteers. The articles are then cross-checked by the students and and the data is entered into the tracker following the sources are verified.

The sources are also listed with links on the site.

Covindia.netlify.com also provides graphs tracing the curve of the full total number of cases and new cases being reported daily, in addition to a bar graph comparison of the incidence in the states.

The one data missing from the site is the number of individuals who have recovered. Nonetheless it has a useful feature - a timelapse map of the contagion’s spread, currently showing districts in white turning green or orange (lower to raised numbers) from March 16 to March 24.

Covidindia.org

A project run by more than 250 volunteers, as the web site says, this India specific tracker lists the amount of infections by state rather than by district. The states are colour coded in line with the number of cases discovered there.  

This site too features a graph. It shows that in 17 days since March 2, the infection spread to 150 people, and the progression has been considerably faster - the numbers hit 300 cases within the next 3 days, 450 cases in only another two days and 600 cases in the next two days.

The web site also lists authoritative coronavirus resources, apart from a static world map on the side of which the total number of infections, deaths and recoveries in addition to the number of infected countries is displayed.

Covidvisualizer.com

Where Covindia.netlify.com and covidindia.org put the user relaxed with their utilization of colours, covidvisualizer.com immediately alarms an individual. It includes a black globe rotating in a deep red background on which yellow and grey dots whizz about appearing to feed countries mapped in shades of red. Altogether an image of gloom, especially as the dots invoke a graphic of viruses hanging in the air like dust particles.

But once you look at night visuals, you would commence to appreciate the tracker. Select any country and you get all the details neatly presented together with the country’s national flag. This includes the total number of cases, patients undergoing treatment (active cases), fatalities and, reassuringly, how many people recovered.

A little tab on the bottom of the single page website labelled ‘More Information’ says the tracker was developed by two students of Carnegie Mellon University, Navid Mamoon and Gabriel Rasskin, and that it uses data from real-time updates of another popular tracker Worldometer. New data is put into the tracker every two minutes.

Johns Hopkins COVID-19 tracker

Talking about trackers, the most cited among them is the one hosted by Johns Hopkins University at coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html. It highlights cases on a black and grey world map, with red circles of varying size denoting the number of cases in each country, or regarding the US and China, each state or province.

Select a circle and you get the facts of the cases for the reason that area - confirmed, deaths, recovered, and active.

This info are also listed by country on tables flanking the world map.

The Johns Hopkins tracker uses data from the major number of sources, like the WHO, CDC, Worldometers.info, and state and national government health departments, as well as local media reports. This is why why, in addition to the evident goodwill of the brand, it really is most widely cited.