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Opinion | The privacy features that are built into Aarogya Setu
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This infection tracker from the Centre comes with checks to secure user data against misuse The biggest challenge in dealing with covid-19 is that infected people are contagious long before they are visibly symptomatic.
This means that by the time you know for sure that you are ill, you would have already infected a number of people. These people, in turn, would have infected others, and so on in an outward ripple.
If we can quickly track and test everyone who an infected patient came in contact with and isolate them before they transmit the disease, we have a chance to slow its spread.
Last week, the Indian government launched an app called Aarogya Setu to try and use data science to solve this problem. The app is already wildly popular,
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COVID-19
United States
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Cases: 46 252 513
Deaths: 750 423
Recovered: 0
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India
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Cases: 34 321 025
Deaths: 459 652
Recovered: 0
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Brazil
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Cases: 21 835 785
Deaths: 608 235
Recovered: 0
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United Kingdom
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Cases: 9 215 683
Deaths: 141 607
Recovered: 0
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Russia
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Cases: 8 494 589
Deaths: 237 619
Recovered: 0
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