The World Health Organization (WHO) last month launched an official Android, iOS and online app called “WHO COVID-19” to keep people informed during the coronavirus pandemic and to combat misinformation, tech blog 9to5Google reported. The WHO app is open source, and primarily consists of the same COVID-19-related advice found in the organization’s recently released WhatsApp chatbot. The “WHO COVID-19” app offers alerts and notifications specific to users’ locations, as well as the potential for “self-triage” tools that could help diagnose whether symptoms match those of COVID-19. In the WHO’s COVID-19 app users can also find the latest information on the number of global cases and related deaths as reported to the World Health Organization. More importantly, the app also includes a link to donate to the WHO’s COVID-19 Solidarity Response Fund.

Source: Egypt Independent April 27, 2020 11:37 UTC