Digital platforms emerge lifelines as cases spike

New Delhi, April 21

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With COVID cases touching a new high, digital platforms — right from Twitter to Tinder — have become lifelines for people looking for hospital beds, medicines and oxygen for patients. Social media platforms like Twitter and Facebook are filled with desperate requests for help. Interestingly, a Twitter user narrated how a plasma match was found for a friend through a dating app Tinder.

Social media posts and WhatsApp messages are aplenty with collated lists of hospitals with available beds, names and phone numbers of distributors of medicines like Remdesivir and even food delivery services for Covid-hit.

Tech giants Google, Facebook also launched a ‘Coronavirus Information Centre’ to provide updates from MyGov Corona Hub, Ministry of Health & Family Welfare (MoHFW) and global health organisations. PTI