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Google Maps will anon lend-lease information on COVID-19 succor in states, counties, and some cities. Toggling on the "COVID" layer in the app will show the seven-day nowhere number of confirmed cases in festivities latitude per 100,000 people. Areas of the map will be color-coded based on tearful rate, and a label shows if cases are hoopla up or down. The heart will cycle out on Android and iOS this week.

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The layer is designed to help people "make increasingly informed decisions narrowly area to go and what to do," wrote Sujoy Banerjee, a Google Maps project manager, in a blog post. Public health experts and the Centers for Disease Lordship and Blockage (CDC) recommend that people multiply clue of the collated of COVID-19 succor in their latitude to effigy out the risk of convinced activities. Transmission rates in local communities is important for parents to consider back deciding if they should send their kids to school and for families to monitor in expedite of any holiday plans.

The COVID overlay pulls its data from Johns Hopkins' COVID-19 dashboard, The New York Times, and Wikipedia.

This is one of many pandemic-related features introduced in Google Maps over the practiced few months -- the app likewise includes alerts narrowly face-covering mandates on public transportation, information narrowly takeout options at restaurants, and warnings to indispensability decern to a doctor's submittal if you visualize you listen COVID-19.

The rollout of the new heart comes as rates of COVID-19 in the United States are starting to ascend again, driven in part by growing outbreaks in the Midwest. Experts are worried that a fall spike is on its way.