The Government throws in WhatsApp Hispabot-Covid19, a bot queries about the coronavirus: so you can add it and use it

The Government has just announce the implementation of Hispabot-Covid19, a channel or query chatbot WhatsApp as of which the Executive of Pedro Sanchez wants to respond to the doubts of citizens about the coronavirus.

The goal is that, but with the nuance of to offer official information, which serves to make disappear the rumours that run through social networks and messaging applications. This fact has led to WhatsApp, in the day of yesterday, has limited forwarding of messages in your application to only one recipient, compared to five before.

The Government continues in the footsteps of Health Alert the World Health Organization

600802802 is the number that you have to save in your agenda

For Hispabot appears among your contacts, you only have to save the phone number “600802802” in your agenda of contacts. Act followed, in WhatsApp is already available for you we ask questions 24 hours a day.

The chatbot WhatsApp has been driven by the State Secretariat for Digitization, and Artificial Intelligence, and in the press release claim that is tested with 200 questions that can be formulated in 1000 ways different. In what little I was able to test, the language that it accepts is quite natural and do not need to use question marks, neither opening nor closing.

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The Government throws in WhatsApp Hispabot-Covid19, a bot queries about the coronavirus: so you can add it and use it

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