The world’s most popular messaging application, WhatsApp, has introduced another feature to raise awareness among its more than 2 billion users about the Corona virus epidemic.
This app has added new stickers named Together at Home.
This update is part of the company’s campaign to provide authentic and helpful updates to users instead of misinformation.
According to WhatsApp, it is introducing these stickers in collaboration with the World Health Organization (WHO) which will be available in 10 languages.
These stickers will encourage people to wash hands, work from home and adopt other social distancing measures.
The update comes as Instagram introduces a popular Stay Home sticker, while new Care Reactions are being added to Facebook and Messenger.
Facebook said in the past few days that the usage rate of messaging apps has increased significantly due to the restriction of people to their homes during the measures against the corona virus around the world.
This is the reason why WhatsApp introduced several features in recent days to prevent the spread of false news regarding the epidemic.
Earlier this month, WhatsApp had tightened the ban on heavily forwarded messages to curb the spread of misunderstandings about the coronavirus outbreak.
The company had announced that if a user receives a message that has been forwarded more than 5 times, then under this new restriction, the user will be forwarded only one chat instead of 5 more chats. Can forward.
It should be noted that last year WhatsApp had imposed a ban on sending a message to 5 individual chats.
WhatsApp introduced the WhatsApp Corona virus patch to bring authentic information about the coronavirus to more people on its website, where people can access accurate information about the fast-spreading epidemic around the world. has been ensured.
The coronavirus information feature introduced by WhatsApp has not only been presented with the support of global health organizations, but to ensure the provision of accurate information in this feature, the messaging application has consulted with several fact-checking organizations. Have also worked together.
But along with this, to provide accurate information to millions of WhatsApp users, the World Health Organization has also introduced a health alert or chatbot that provides statistics, answers to various questions and other information.
For this purpose, save +41 79 893 1892 in the phone contact and send the message hi to it, a menu will open in front of you, in which the required information can be obtained through various emojis.
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2024-08-27 00:32:06
