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A Hyper Local, Crowd Sourced, Data Driven Chatbot for Covid

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Overview The COVID-19 pandemic has captured everyone's attention and impacted our daily lives for the past few months. It is likely to remain that way for the foreseeable future too as we learn to navigate around it. Several organizations and volunteers globally have create various kinds of dashboards, databases etc. so that information is available to everyone. Some of them are - Covid 19 database by John Hopkins -  https://github.com/CSSEGISandData/COVID-19 Covid 19 India dashboards -  https://github.com/covid19india/covid19india-react Covid 19 India clusters -  https://github.com/someshkar/covid19india-cluster WHO app -  https://github.com/WorldHealthOrganization/app Covid 19 time series data -  https://github.com/pomber/covid19 And, many others Approach From the various open source applications already created for COVID, came my inspiration too, for a chat bot. The idea is to empower local communities with data and insight so that they are better informed as they go about their