AN EASY-TO-USE website made in less than 24 hours by an Oxfordshire whizz kid shows the number of daily Covid-19 infections in every county.

Alex Bowring started his project as a 'learning curve challenge', but it is now helping people track the changing curve of coronavirus cases in their area.

The nifty website that he launched on Tuesday uses data published by the Department of Health and Social Care, and the Scottish and Welsh governments.

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The Oxford University graduate did not have any experience in statistical programming language, but said that he always wanted to learn how to do it.

He added that the current lockdown would be’ a good opportunity’ to start coding, so he decided that creating an app would be ‘a decent challenge’.

He said: "The idea came about because as a country we are currently being shown lots of national data on coronavirus, and told we need to stay indoors to ‘flatten the curve’.

"However, this national data is mostly being driven by the huge amount of cases in major cities, particularly in London.

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"I wanted to be able to see what the coronavirus curve was for Oxfordshire so that I could see the impact the virus was having on the local community, and whether efforts in our city were helping to flatten our local curve."

The population health graduate was also very keen to track the data in West Sussex as it is where most of his family is based.

He added: “When I looked online, I found that regional data was hard to obtain, and could only find the total Oxfordshire Covid-19 cases for that specific day.

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“I thought that a lot of people would probably be interested to see the curve for their region, which motivated me to start working on the application.”

Working at breakneck speed this week, the stats whizz started working on the project on Monday and by Tuesday evening he had already finished coding.

He then shared the website on social media as the Covid-19 County Case tracker for the UK.

The website was an instant hit, with people keen to see what the local graph looked like.

However, he said he was swiftly contacted by people from Wales and Scotland who urged him to add their countries too,

Thrilled about the website’s quick success Mr Bowring added: “I would love to extend to a mobile app but I do not think I have the skills to do that yet.”

To check out Mr Bowring’s website and track the number of coronavirus infections in Oxfordshire visit https://covid19cct.shinyapps.io/covid19cct/