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I’m a travel reporter who’s barely left home in 9 months, but Google Maps’ new tool makes me feel safer about travelling again – Business Insider Australia
As a Google Pixel phone owner who sings its praises from the rooftops, I’m already very aware of how Google products help me, both when I travel and in my day-to-day….
- Google Maps’ new “COVID-19 layer” allows users to see up-to-date coronavirus risk numbers.
- It shows a seven-day average of the number of new cases per 100,000 people.
- Stats are based on The New York Times, Wikipedia, Johns Hopkins University, and the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation.
- This feature, along with others such as “live busyness” and transit alerts, will help make travelling during the pandemic a little safer.
- The Centres for Disease Control and Prevention warns that “travel increases…
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