COVID-19 Support

Inspiration

In Vietnam, the Covid-19 anti-epidemic is entering in a second phase, which is more dangerous and harsher, after the previous successful phase. The number of infections has increased dramatically and the first deaths occurred in this country. Because of the success of the previous anti-epidemic phase, along with fake news about the disease, people are being subjective, underestimate the disease. Along with that is the flood of information on the Internet with different contents and explanations about the disease, making it difficult for people to know exactly how to prevent this disease.

What it does

Chatbot will provide all the most accurate and up-to-date information about Covid-19 along with an update on disease situation and number of cases taken from the WHO website. Accurate and complete knowledge of Covid-19 will increase public awareness of the epidemic and facilitate the government's social isolation in its campaign to prevent the spread of the epidemic. Chatbot on the facebook platform - the most used social network in Vietnam, will make it easy for people to access information easily and fastest amid countless information on the internet.

How I built it

I used Chatfuel to create a chat flow and Facebook Massager to interact with the chatbot.

Challenges I ran into

There are still limitations on the API that provide information about the disease or the number of cases as well as tracking the disease in Vietnam (the API only support much for the US and European countries).

Accomplishments that I'm proud of

Provide accurate, fast and concise information about Covid-19 and create something useful for the community

What I learned

I learned for the first time how to build a chatbot messenger as well as taking part in a hackathon contest on facebook.

What's next for COVID-19 Support

Research and develop some features or API about epidemics in Vietnam. I will try to improve the FAQ feature so that chatbot can answer more specific questions in more detail.

Built With

• chatfuel