WhatsApp latest feature: WhatsApp is expected to soon roll out the “Disappearing Messages” feature. Wabetainfo claims that the Facebook-owned company will release this feature with one of the upcoming updates. Ahead of the release, the cited source has revealed more details about “Disappearing Messages.” WhatsApp users will be allowed to enable the feature any time they want.
WhatsApp has confirmed its new exciting disappearing messages feature which, once enabled, will make new messages sent in individual or group chats disappear after seven days. As per the information provided on the support page, enabling the settings will not affect the messages previously sent or received in chat. While the users can themselves turn disappearing messages on and off for individual chats, in a group chat, only the admins will get to use the feature. With this, if a user does not open Whatsapp in the seven-day period, the message will disappear, but its preview might still be displayed in notifications until the App is opened. The feature, as per the App, will not work if the disappearing message is forwarded, and in case the user creates a backup, however, when the user restores from a backup.
As per the settings for media download, if auto-download is turned on the receiving phone the images, videos will be automatically saved on the device. There, however, is no option of customizing the time frame after which the messages will be deleted.
Mean-while, There are at least 182 coronavirus vaccine candidates in pre-clinical or clinical-trial stages across the globe. Of these, nine are in the final human-trial stage. In India, two vaccines are in Phase-II trials and one (the Oxford University one) in Phase-III. While experts have said vaccines are likely to reach the general public in March-April 2021, drug makers have been more ambitious with their calculations. Firms like Moderna Inc and Pfizer are eyeing the emergency-use authorization route to launch their shots by year-end. According to a study, India has used its manufacturing capabilities to pre-order 600 million doses of the Covid-19 vaccine and is negotiating for another billion. The United States, on the other hand, has pre-ordered more doses.
Covid-19 has infected over 46.8 million people across the globe so far and has claimed nearly 1,205,000 lives. With the virus spreading rapidly and re-surfacing in Europe, every hope is now pinned on coronavirus vaccine development.
Also, India recorded 45,231 new cases of COVId-19 in the last 24 hours, government data shows. The daily case count was 3.6 percent lower than yesterday’s 46,963. With this, the country’s overall coronavirus case count since January was past 82.29 lakh.
According to the Union Health Ministry, the active COVID-19 cases in the country stand at 5,61,908, while 75,44,798 people have recovered from the disease so far.
