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Common people of Savar , like elsewhere in the country are also being benefited in their fight against the Covid-19 pandemic through surfing the government sponsored web-portal Corona Info.
“This web portal is very helpful. We had taken medical advices and follow health rules by help of the site while I along with my husband and two sons got positive to corona virus,” said Helen Keller, a teacher of Savar Manikandan primary school.
The government’s Digital Bangladesh flagship programme, A2I with the support of the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare Affairs is running the ‘corona info’ web portal - www.corona.gov.bd – offering as kind of a one stop digital health services related to the pandemic to masses.
The portal has already given a big boost to mass awareness by making common people knowledgeable about the pandemic through providing different information related to novel coronavirus including its symptom and treatment.
The site Corona Info offers all updated data and information related to pandemic as well as provides telemedicine to Covid-19 positive patients.
Halen said the telemedicine service and tutorials over different corona related mobile app, provided by the portal, are very helpful for everyone.
“When I was isolated with my family members at home, the telemedical service of the site was seemed as kind of life saver to us,” she said, adding that anyone can also get information regarding coronavirus and the pandemic situation through live chat using the chatbot of the site.
The portal also provides information regarding coronavirus testing and hospital facilities including availability of ICU beds along with the government pandemic instructions and district wary maps pointing the hot zones of the virus.
“Recently, I got cough and mild fever. I just went through the portal for checking the coronavirus symptoms.
