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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. That trend pushed him into developing a platform that captured this virtual opportunity but with therapists on the other end. “We million in 2021 and 130% between 2020 and 2021.

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Platforms successfully stopped a lame COVID conspiracy video from going viral

The Verge

The more aggressive apps introduced in South Korea and Kuwait may have been more effective, but they also introduced privacy concerns. Oculus will soon require all of its virtual reality headset users to sign up with a Facebook account. But the platforms’ actions on Tuesday showed us that progress is possible. Sara Fischer / Axios ).

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