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Aarogya Setu alerted 1,40,000 people of potential risk of Coviod-19 infection: Amitabh Kant
NEW DELHI : Contact tracing application Aarogya Setu launched early in April has so far alerted 1,40,000 people of potential risk of infection through bluetooth contact tracing and has shown high efficacy in flagging the requirement to get tested for Coronavirus infection, Amitabh Kant, chief executive officer of federal policy think tank NITI Aayog said here.Kant said at a webinar on ‘next generation healthcare’ organised by Hero Enterprise and a thinktank set up by it--Mindmine Institute--that Aarogya Setu managed to flag the testing requirement to so many people by tracing their proximity to 30,000 users of the application who have tested positive to Coronavirus.“We have predicted more than 3,500 hotspots in the country at sub post