Aarogya Setu, the mobile application to help track COVID-19 patients, has alerted around 1.4 lakh users in the country about a possible risk of infection due to proximity to infected persons, an official said on Monday, even as the government mulled making this app mandatory for air passengers.
The official also said the government’s official app helped generate information about 697 potential hotspots in the country.
Ajay Sawhney, Chairman of the Empowered Group 9 which deals with Technology and Data Management in the fight against COVID-19, said the app will soon reach a user base of 10 crore, as he gave an update on the use of the tool that enables better ‘contact tracing’-–one of the key elements in fighting infectious diseases using a