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Take a look at these Korean apps helping people avoid areas infected by the coronavirus

Mar 2, 2020, 23:01 IST

Corona 100m was launched on February 11, and has since been downloaded over one million times, CNN Business reported.

The app collects data from public government info including the Korea Centers for Disease Control to show the date a patient was diagnosed with COVID-19, along with the person's nationality, age, gender, and where they visited.

If a person using the app comes within 100 meters, or about 328 feet, of a place where a person carrying the virus has been, they get a push notification warning — the app's namesake.

Developer Bae Won-Seok said that the app was growing, with 20,000 downloads every hour, at one point crashing its servers with too many downloads.

Corona Map, which also tracks the locations of people know to have COVID-19, was the second-most-downloaded app in Korea on Wednesday.

Like Corona 100m, Corona Map plots the locations where people known to have had COVID-19 have been, to make avoiding these areas easier.

Developer Lee Jun-young told CNN that he created the app because he found that the official government data was difficult to understand.

These precautions in South Korea are in addition to measures by government and health officials, including efficient "drive-thru" testing that takes less than 10 minutes.

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