War on Covid-19: An app that traces whereabouts and rewards self-isolation
The coronovirus pandemic has brought civil society to a
grinding halt. While cases in Iran and Italy have blown up, India is still
managing to contain the spread. Critics say that is because enough people
aren’t being tested. This is set to change as the government recently allowed
more laboratories to conduct tests for Covid-19.
As
new cases come to the fore, one of the prime necessities is to determine the
patient’s activity over the past two weeks. The people the infected person came
in contact with at the various places he or she visited are then tested for
potential contamination and put on quarantine.
The
problem is that one gets to know very late whether he or she is a carrier of
the virus.
Nav
Chatterji, a New Delhi-based technologist, has come up with a solution. He is
rolling out an app that will track a user’s location history over the past 14
days, with the capability to present the data in a readable list-like format.
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