Whats-App Corona Virus Information Hub
One word “Corona-Virus” which
is buzzing throughout the world from past few months and our lives are in
jeopardy. There are several mediums to know the latest updates second by second
through various sites, platforms etc. There is a saying that every
information we receive is always true or false which is the main reason where
every person thinks more about that news and react to that situation. Sometimes
such kind of incidents can end in a bad way and a human can take wrong
decisions instead of researching whether the information is true or not because
this is such a sensitive thing where anyone can believe easily. Through social
media one can communicate to loved ones across the globe without any hassle. Such
huge and popular platforms become the reason for spreading false news in some
cases. To handle all such things Whats-App has developed a website
which is “Whats-App Corona-virus Information Hub”.
This web page is in partnership with World Health
Organization (WHO), United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), and United Nations
Development Program. In addition to this it already announced a “$1
Million” which is approx. 7.44 Crores donation to the Poynter Institute's
International Fact-Checking Network to eradicate of spreading
fake news on this sensitive issue.
Below are the highlights of
this web-page :
->It gives guidance to
various health workers, educators, community leaders, local governments etc
about this virus.
->Latest guidelines by WHO and other national health
ministries is read by any user in easy way.
->All the information provided in website are in
different international languages which includes some India languages such as
Hindi, Telugu, Marathi, Gujarati and others.
In addition to all the above advantages mentioned this
web-page are working with WHO and UNICEF to give messaging hotlines in which one
can directly communicate with preset destination without any external medium to
connect which is also called as point to point messaging to give more detailed
information about the epidemic. This is already put into practice as they
provide factual data to users via text in countries such as Singapore, Israel,
South Africa, Brazil and Indonesia. This feature will be shortly introduced in
many countries like India, USA, Spain etc.
The URL of this useful web-page is “https://www.whatsapp.com/coronavirus” to access the messaging hotlines feature.
There are few more links which are helpful to stay
updated about this epidemic stats second by second given below:
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