Is there Coronavirus in Your Compound? & MORE

原创 Virus ChengduExpat

It is certainly a strange time to be in China!

But China wouldn't be China without incredible tech, which in some ways is borderline creepy...

Here's what we got for you:
1) A MiniProgram check which compounds have infected cases. Regularly updated, China-wide.
2) A website to find out if you've ever traveled with a coronavirus patient.
3) Travel stats.

4) Drones, drones, drones!
4) A few ways to track all the stats (dead, infected, suspected and recovered), real-time.

1. Map of Reported Cases

疫况 yì kuàng, a new MiniProgram, shows you where the infected cases around you are. It already covers 35 cities, with all data coming from official sources such as local health authorities. It's almost like playing a video game, avoid the red dots!

Scan the QR code below to access

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Example map of Chengdu

Another similar MiniProgram (with a great name) is called 哪里有状况.

2. Find out if you've Traveled with a Coronavirus Patient

For anyone who has traveled by plane or train within the last month, you can input your flight or train number to learn whether a passenger infected by the novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) was on your trip. You can also search for specific information about the situation in specific cities.

The coronavirus tracker is available on 133.cn – scan the QR code below to access it.

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If you see the following message after inputing the information, then no one on your flight or train is reported to having the coronavirus.

Image: 133.cn

3. Travel Statistics

Baidu Maps newly developed Qianxi Maps, a tool that shows how many people traveled from and to which cities. As the coronavirus incubation period is around 7-14 days, the numbers can indicates (future) risks in the listed cities.

You can see how many people migrated (incoming 迁入/ outgoing 迁出) during the selected date, and compare the numbers to the same time last year.

👉 https://qianxi.baidu.com/

4. Drones

In order to prevent and control the novel coronavirus-related pneumonia and safeguard passengers' health, high-tech products such as drones and robots have been deployed.

You must have seen the drones requesting people to wear there masks. In Qingdao and Hefei, where drones are being used for disinfection. A drone can carry about 10 liters of disinfectant, with a spraying area of 5,000 square meters each time. A drone was also used to deliver groceries for quarantined villagers in eastern China.

5. How to Track the latest Numbers

As a continuous stream of information comes out from various sources on China's novel coronavirus outbreak - its useful to know how your city is being affected by the infectious disease.

Tencent Health 腾讯健康

Except for the updated numbers, Tencent Health also incorporates services like checkup scheduling, hospital visit, travel stats, and more.

Available as MiniProgram (extract QR code below), or go to WeChat Pay > Health

DīngXiāngYuán 丁香园

The Chinese online healthcare platform DXY.cn has put together a real-time feed of the coronavirus case count as well as the latest updates, which was consulted >1.4 billion times in meanwhile.