‘Corona Chatbot’ has been launched by the Pakistani government. People can use this app to collect up to date information on COVID-19 pandemic in two languages that are English and Urdu. This was announced by the head of PM’s ‘Digital Pakistan’ initiative Tania Aidrus.
Tania Aidrus wrote on Twitter, “Our team wanted to build an effective way to get information out to Pakistanis. We’ve launched a chatbot to address common concerns on #Coronavirus. You can find labs near you and even do a quick test to assess your risk of #Coronavirus. Please try it out!”
The bilingual chatbot is developed to assist Pakistanis for collecting related information regarding coronavirus including the data of laboratories for screening tests and even do a quick test to assess the risk of the virus by answering to a number of questions.People can collect or revise the data related to the symptoms of coronavirus using the platform.
From this platform, people can easily collect or revise all data related to the symptoms of the deadly virus.The chatbot can be accessed via Facebook messenger,You need to subscribe to the Facebook Messenger’s chatbox with Pakistan’s health ministry’s (NHSRC) official page via your social account.
The bot will ask you for your location if you search for the nearest labs. A list of laboratories will be provided for the screening tests of COVID-19.
Not just live updates of the virus will be given to the people but also essential info, symptoms, protection tips, assessing health risks to the person will be given to the users.
