As the new strain of coronavirus continues to spread in China and around the world, four computer science students at UVA, Virginia Tech and Stanford have launched a website to keep people informed and safe.
The website, https://www.trackcorona.live provides near real-time information about the spread of the virus, locations, and infection, recovery and mortality rates.
Soukarya Ghosh : What we found out quickly is that correct information is hard to come by.
Soukarya Ghosh is a third-year computer science and mathematics major at UVA and he says they cross-reference information from WHO, CDC and a Chinese website maintained by medical professionals.
Ghosh : What we hope to accomplish is just to inform people and hopefully lead them to be cautious in how they go about their day.
It began as a personal project, but the four students say the website is getting a thousand hits a day from all seven continents.
