Get our daily coronavirus email newsletter with all the news you need to know direct to your inbox Sign up Thank you for subscribing We have more newsletters Show me See our privacy notice Invalid EmailWith more than one billion users, Google Maps is without a doubt one of the most popular navigational apps around the world. Now, Google has introduced a new feature that lets you navigate away from areas with high rates of coronavirus. The feature, called ‘COVID layers’, is the latest in a string of new features designed to make people feel more confident while travelling during the pandemic. (Image: Google)Tap on ‘COVID-19 info’, and you’ll see a seven day average of new COVID cases per 100,000 people for the area of the map you’re looking at, as well as a label that indicates whether the cases are trending up or down. Google has also included colour coding to help you to distinguish the density of new cases in an area.

Source: Daily Mirror September 27, 2020 06:56 UTC