Police forces, and central/state governments around the country are using location-tracking on smartphones to identify possible Covid-19 infections or to keep people indoors.
Apps allowing citizens to track whether they came in contact with infected people are quickly increasing on the Google and Apple app stores.
Most of these apps use smartphone locations and tally them against government databases of infected personnel. They can alert users if they came in contact with anyone who has been infected and direct them to stay indoors.
An example of this is Corona Kavach, launched by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeiTY). But while Corona Kavach seems to depend on users to voluntarily enter their information,