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Egyptian health and wellness platform Esaal raises $1.7M to scale across MENA

TechCrunch

As of 2018, Egypt’s doctor to citizen ratio stood at 1:2,000; you can paint a picture when you walk into any government hospital and see long queues. These problems and pandemic-changing habits have resulted in an uptake in doctor-booking and consultation apps across Egypt and the wider MENA region.

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Platforms successfully stopped a lame COVID conspiracy video from going viral

The Verge

The World Health Organization is developing methods to measure the harm of virus-related misinformation online, and over two weeks in July the group hosted an online conference with doctors, public health experts and internet researchers about how to address the problem. They know how to do the right thing, and they can.

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