A map showing the spread of confirmed coronavirus cases in Singapore is going viral in the country.
As of Thursday, the country has recorded 58 cases — making it the country with the highest number of confirmed cases in the world outside China, which has nearly 60,000 cases.
Singapore authorities confirmed eight more cases on Thursday, The Straits Times reported.
The number of infections in Singapore also come just before those on the Diamond Princess, the cruise ship quarantined in Japan which has found 218 infections since last Monday.
This map illustrates each of the cases in Singapore, which appear in color-coded dots.
The newest cases are in red, existing cases are in orange, and locations that those infected with the virus had visited are in white — showing the alarming spread of the virus, which can be passed from human to human simply by brushing skin.
Clicking on each case reveals government-supplied information on the age, gender, citizenship, and locations visited by that individual, marked by blue lines.
The site receives about 20,000 visits a day, with the majority coming from Singapore, Malaysia, and Indonesia, said the map's creator, a 32-year-old software engineer from Singapore who wanted only to be known by his Twitter handle @Ottokyu.
Ottokyu told Business Insider he updates the map the moment new information on cases is announced, which he monitors through Twitter updates from Singapore's Ministry of Health.
The engineer, who experiments with maps and data analytics in his spare time, said he created the map to convert the government's text-based updates into an easy-to-understand visual format.
He hopes this format can offer users a quick glance at where the virus had spread across the nation.
The interactive map also carries an advisory informing visitors that there is no need to avoid places visited by suspected and confirmed cases, as the risk of infection from transient contact is low.