Kerala launches interactive health portal on COVID-19

Amid the COVID-19

pandemic, the Kerala Health Department Thursday launched an interactive portal to provide a comprehensive information on various activities of the department to contain the spread of the virus.

State Health Minister K K Shailaja launched the portal and said it was opened to the public at a right time "when the whole world was going throughone of the worst pandemics and would like to know the situation in Kerala."

"In context of COVID-19, the portal gives all the information regarding basic indicators through an interactive dashboard having innovative graphical features.

There is one particular section- 'Fish tank'- to generate interest among school children," the minister said in a release.

The portal provides information about the number of patients under isolation represented through fish and its size.

It will also have a chat bot 'Arogyamitra' to interact with people.

"The portal has a unique feature of publishing every day a technical paper to cover