This Covid Emergency App Lists Verified Info From Across India In Real-Time
The app also offers a clean and responsive user interface with a variety of areas covered to help anyone who is looking for info from anywhere across the nation.
With 3.4 lakh COVID-19 cases and 2,624 deaths, just yesterday alone, the COVID-19 pandemic situation is showing no signs of improving. As of today, India has recorded over 1.66 crore total COVID-19 cases.
Amidst these dire times, when the state has failed us, communities on social media have come together to help people find the necessities -- whether it¡¯s through Tweets or Google Docs with COVID-19 helpline numbers.
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Many have even developed apps that aggregate all of the data available and categorizes them on the basis of region and type of COVID-19 essential. We¡¯ve seen a few of those around.
However, yesterday I came across one shared by Aloke Bajpai, founder and CEO of popular travel booking website Ixigo. He via his Twitter handle shared a link developed on Sprinklr that had aggregated tweets regarding COVID-19 essentials.
All COVID tweets regarding availability of beds, oxygen and more, neatly categorised by location and update in real time by @Sprinklr https://t.co/QtyXwL7Rqz
¡ª Aloke Bajpai (@alokebajpai) April 23, 2021
The site had listed info of most states and cities of the nation and upon selecting a particular location, it would show a list of tweets categorized in different forms of COVID-19 essentials like hospital beds, oxygen cylinders, blood plasma, medicines as well as the availability of ICUs and ventilators. In some locations, it also lists information on the availability of injections such as Tocilizumab and Remdesivir.
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The site simply lists tweets of a specific COVID-19 essential in a particular category. It¡¯s not specific to whether it¡¯s the requests by individuals or whether its information being provided by someone.
Moreover, it also offers a clean and responsive user interface with a variety of areas covered to help anyone who is looking for info from anywhere across the nation.
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The platform that this is built on -- Sprinklr -- is actually a customer experience management platform. It calls itself a unified front-office platform that enables companies to communicate with their customers over social media channels, review sites and messaging channels.