Do I have COVID-19 if I sneeze? How will governments ensure to reduce the spread of COVID-19? How will we flatten the curve? How will we stop community transmission? When and how can I reopen my business safely? Such questions continue to raise fear and anxiety among all of us.
In the current times, when the world is facing an unprecedented challenge to fight against this pandemic, people are again looking towards affordable, fast, and useful technological solutions.
Various organizations and medical institutions are investing billions of dollars to stop the spread of COVID-19 and possibly put an end to the pandemic.
This has created new opportunities for technological innovations to ease anxiety and stress among people, control people’s movement, aid in detection of body parameters in public places, and help businesses reopen safely.
Here’s a rundown of some tech-driven solutions launched by Kirusa to help combat COVID-19.
Intuitive App to Track Your COVID Symptoms
COVID Symptom, an iOS app, to help you keep a diary of your symptoms on a daily basis with the intention to reduce fear and paranoia among people in this pandemic.
For anybody who is anxious about COVID-19, is having any symptoms, or has come in touch with any COVID+ person recently, can use this app to:
- Track and monitor their daily symptoms
- Share history of your symptoms with doctor
- Help scientists and researchers to track and study model prevalence of COVID-19 in our communities
The features and functionalities of this app have been carefully curated after consulting various medical researchers and professionals who have the expertise in understanding how COVID-19 transmits and all the related symptoms associated with it. This app also helps researchers use aggregated, non-personally identifiable data to create heat maps showing prevalence of symptoms in the community, in order to help them better understand the spread of COVID-19.
The app is free to use for all. The app can be downloaded by:
- Dialing 1-337-516-0379
- Searching for “COVID Symptom” on the Apple App Store
- Visiting COVIDSymptom.org
Web-Application to Help Offices Reopen Safely
As the curve started to flatten, economies opened up and people started living in the “new normal”. Nearly 50% of states in the USA have either reopened or are in the reopening phase. As more and more businesses are reopening, providing a safe work environment, and complying with the safety policies and guidelines issued by the Center of Disease Control (CDC), Whitehouse, OSHA and State Government agencies is becoming extremely crucial.
The return to the business activity requires following strict workplace screening protocols in order to prevent an outbreak. Safe Reopening, an easy-to-use web application, therefore, will help enterprises ensure a safe working environment by tracking and monitoring the health status of the employees’ who are returning to work.
Here’s how Safe Reopening solution works:
Employees can:
- Self-report their health status every day to ensure workplace safety for other employees’
- Record symptoms & test results (if any)
- Enter travel history (without using GPS or Bluetooth tracking)
Office Managers can:
- Track the COVID-19 status of the workforce on a daily basis in their dashboard.
- Provides immediate access to workforce’s health status.
- Implements hassle free workplace screening as per OSHA and CDC guidelines
Safe Reopening solution also removes the hurdle of managing tons of paperwork and manually entering the data. Businesses can assure safety to their customers by displaying Certificate of Trust & Safety, which may even open doors for new business prospects. Visit safreopening.co to know how you can reopen your business in the middle of a pandemic.
WhatsApp Business Solutions to Communicate Effectively
It is important to stay connected with your employees and customers in these times when most of the companies are still working remotely. Businesses can communicate with their customers in real time, on the world’s most predominant messaging platform with two billion users by implementing WhatsApp Business Solutions.
WhatsApp Customer Support chatbot services can help enterprises streamline their communication processes by answering customer queries, collecting information as well as routing calls to live agents who can then start conversations and solve customer queries quickly.
Here are the benefits of using WhatsApp Business APIs:
- Can be remotely implemented
- Integrated with existing contact center
- Facilitate two-way communication with customers
- Has global reach and conversation can take place between any two parts of the world
- Interactive communication using, images, audios, videos along with text
- Automate customer support functions (account balance, payment due etc.)
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This year has been challenging for all of us, but every challenge presents an opportunity. We need to embrace these challenging times and see how we can utilize it for our own benefit. We are here to sail this storm with you.
Click here to get in touch with us to help you reopen your business safely, and let us provide you with innovative solutions to help you communicate with your employees and customers effectively.
