April 14th, 2020
#blog 04
On 14th march 2020 as our honorable PM Mr. Modi extended lockdown till may 3,2020 with that he also told various type of prevention to take to be safe from covid-19 and told about the Aarogya setu app.
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| Aarogya setu app |
It is a COVID-19 tracking mobile application developed by the National Informatics center that comes under the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, government of India. This app is available for both android and ios.
This app seems to have replaced the Corona Kvach app that MeiTY had bought out earlier.
The purpose of this is to spread awareness and "Augmenting" efforts to "practices" and relevant advisories pertaining to the containment of COVID-19.
The app lets users check whether they have been in contact with infected people by using location and Bluetooth data from smartphones.
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| aarogya setu app |
This app requires users to give continuous access to their smartphone's location that would let it figure out where the user has been. The bluetooth location lets users figure out a person's proximity to others.
This app also contains a test to ensure that you are safe or not. So when you register in this app you have take a self assesment test and also tell you to take what type of prevention to be safe from covid-19.
And if we talk about the privacy of the app there is mention in this app that " Your data is shared only with the Government of India. This app does not allow your name and number to be disclosed to the public at large at any time".
Wheather you live in any region of the India this app is available in 11 languages. So it will be not hard for you to understand.
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| aarogya setu |
Today more than 2 cr people have downloaded the app on the recommendation of PM Modi in his lockdown extension speech.
Inspiration came from NITI Ayog's Amith Kant took to twitter to post, "India leads the way in contact tracing for Covid-19 privacy first by design, secure, robust, and scalable to billion users". Further tagging Apple's Tim Cook and Google's Sundar Pichai Kant said, "Glad to see Apple and Google joining hands to develop contact tracing on the lines of Aarogya Setu".
And actually first time this type of app was developed by china when their were many patients of covid-19 in their country and understanding this many countries made their own app to track covid-19 patients.
Even South economic report of World Bank says, " Digital technologies can also be used to monitor the spread of Covid-19. Such initiatives largely voluntary, have been have been successful in helping combat the pandemic in east asia. Incentives also can be provided to those who report symptoms. India recently launched app, AAROGYA SETU, that uses location data from persons' smart phones to tell users if they have been near someone who tested positive for covid-19".
So do download this app as whenever you go out you will be inform by this app that someone near you has corona or not and even it will tell you the hotspot of corona patients. But remember you will know this only if people near you will also have this app and their GPS and bluetooth is on.
You can download from both :
Playstore : https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=nic.goi.aarogyasetu&hl=en_IN
Apple store: https://apps.apple.com/in/app/aarogyasetu/id1505825357
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Lockdown extended till may 3
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