Amazon’s Alexa voice assistant can now help you find nearest COVID-19 testing and vaccination centres

Amazon Alexa: Amazon has updated its smart voice assistant Alexa to provide help in vaccination against COVID-19. For the new update, the tech giant has worked with the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare and MapMyIndia, enabling Alexa to help people find where to get the coronavirus vaccine dose from along with other useful information about the vaccination centres. Alexa would also give users information about the nearest vaccination centres, with users being able to ask the smart voice assistant about the availability of doses, the helpline numbers for coronavirus, and details for contributing to COVID-19 relief among others.

All of the information would be sourced by Alexa from the CoWin portal, the website of the Union Health Ministry and from MapMyIndia.