Chennai: Facebook has announced expanding Covid-19 announcement in India, which is a tool for the health departments of States and Union Territories to share essential corona related updates with their communities.
This is part of our ongoing efforts to support the public health authorities’ work to keep people safe and informed during the coronavirus public health crisis.
India is the second country after the US to launch this feature and we have partnered with 33 States and Union Territories to roll this out in their respective jurisdictions.
The Covid-19 Announcement feature will give health departments the ability to push out timely, credible corona and vaccine information to people in their local communities/ State jurisdictions.
States will be able to issue these alerts statewide or to specific cities within their state.
“When posts by State health department pages on Facebook are marked as Covid-19 Announcements, we amplify their reach so that people located in the community are more likely to see them. We will send notifications to people located in the affected area, and will also show that information on the Covid-19 Information Center. This will help distribute important and urgent updates related to Covid or vaccination efforts to people in the community,” FB said.