Chinese citizens turn to virus tracker apps to avoid infected neighbourhoods

SHENZHEN: Chinese citizens are using mapping programmes and travel trackers in a bid to avoid neighborhoods with infections of the coronavirus and to better prepare for the dangers they face.

Both data mapping company QuantUrban and a third-party Wechat mini-program developer have created platforms that take official information on the neighbourhoods where confirmed cases live and map it geographically so that users can guage how close they are to infection sites.