With the spread of the epidemic in South Korea, some private software developers have set up websites and applications on which citizens can track known cases, thus avoiding the places where infected people have passed. The software - Reuters explains on its website - are based on data released by the Korean government, including gender, age and daily journeys of the cases ascertained.
Among the sites is Coronamap.live which offers an interactive map in Korean, Chinese and English, and allows users to see if there are cases of coronavirus nearby. The site, created by a 19 year old, counts 300 thousand visits per day. The exponential growth of cases has however made the updating of the platform challenging, which is currently out of order.
Same difficulties for the Wuhanvirus.kr site, which shows a real-time count of infections, deaths and discharged patients. It was created by developer Kwon Young-jae, who runs it together with his wife. "It was easy to update the page until early last week," said Kwon. "But with dozens of new patients every few hours, it's starting to get heavy."