With increasing number of COVID-19 positive cases in India, State and Central Governments are trying every possible way to tackle and contain the spread of this pandemic disease from establishing testing labs to ban on export of medical equipment. In view of same Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology has developed an App named “Corona Kavach” in order track the footsteps of the Corona Positive cases and keep other users informed about it.
The application is currently available on Google Play Store and may not perform as expected right now, it is trial Beta version that is available, due to which data for number current cases and death toll is not up to date. The application uses location of the user to keep the track and inform whether the user has ever been in nearby range of a Corona Positive person.
According to the information available on the application, every hour the application will automatically check the status and cautions via notifications when anyone who is tested positive is near the user. The application also recommends the user not to completely close the app and keep on checking the application to get the latest information, other than this application also helps the user to do the breathing exercise and also has a questionnaire section.
Official Launch date of the application will be announced soon.
-Gautam Mishra