
Official NHS guidance is now also being displayed at the top of internet search results as part of a crackdown, as well as at the top of searches on Facebook and Twitter. Meanwhile, The UK’s department for digital, culture, media and sport-led team will engage with social media companies to monitor interference with the aim of limiting the spread of coronavirus-related fake news.

Varadkar advised people to follow the Health Service Executive (HSE), WHO, the Government’s news channel, Merrion Street, and the Irish Department of Foreign Affairs for factual updates.Ī cross-government counter-disinformation unit has been set up in a bid to deal with the potential extent, scope and impact of misleading and false details. Please get your info from official, trusted sources. These messages are scaring and confusing people and causing real damage. I am urging everyone to please stop sharing unverified info on What's app groups.

Please get your info from official trusted sources.” On Monday (16 March), An Taoiseach Leo Varadkar, TD, tweeted: “I am urging everyone to please stop sharing unverified info on Whatsapp groups. Technology firms have also taken steps to try and tackle misinformation. The new tracking website comes as the public is being warned to watch out for false guidance about coronavirus online. The website also enables users to click through to search results for the latest news on the outbreak, as well as links to official government advice and health organisation websites. The map updates regularly in order to provide up-to-date information to those viewing the tracker. It also breaks down cases into active, recovered and fatal cases for each region.
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We received awards for our work from the Society of Professional Journalists, the Sigma Awards, and the NYU Journalism Online Awards. The map displays cases globally but also allows users to view cases by country and see recent news stories and videos from that region. The COVID Tracking Project was cited in more than 1,000 academic papers, including major medical journals like The New England Journal of Medicine, Nature, and JAMA. The map uses data from the World Health Organization (WHO), the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC). Microsoft’s Bing search engine has launched a new interactive map that allows users to track the number of cases of Covid-19 around the world. When you click on a country in the list or on the map, the Covid-19 Tracker not only shows extra details, but also immediately searches the Bing-engine and shows related articles and videos.Bing’s new website allows users to track the number of Covid-19 cases around the world, as well as news linked to that region from trustworthy sources. At the top of the list are China and Italy, followed by Iran, Spain and Germany. In the column on the left, the Covid-19 Tracker ranks the countries based on the number of official infections. Posted an item with tracking or asked for a signature when it arrives You can track your parcels progress via Royal Mail or Parcelforce Worldwide. When zooming in on the circle of a country, a box appears with the number of active infections, the number of deaths and the number of people declared cured. The bigger the circle, the more affected the region is. The world map highlights which areas are affected by means of red circles. The Covid-19 Tracker uses Microsoft Bing Maps, the company’s own map technology.


Microsoft has published an interactive world map that shows in real time how many officially registered corona infections, cures and deaths are measured in the affected countries.
