[ad_1]
The | New Delhi |
Posted: May 10, 2020 2:05:04 am
Aarogya Setu is a contact tracking application developed by the National Computing Center (NIC) of the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology. (Express photo: Sneha Saha)
The Ministry of HEALTH is passing to the states a list of over 600 potential access points at the post office level that were identified in an analysis by the developers of the Aarogya Setu application: none of these locations had been previously considered as access points.
According to Senior Scientific Advisor K VijayRaghavan, Niti Aayog, these potential 6 to 9 km area hotspots were each determined using the previous two-week location history of the more than 12,500 COVID-19 patients on the app as well as self-assessment information. CEO Amitabh Kant and IT Secretary Ajay Prakash Sawhney.
The list was sent through the app’s control panel to the Ministry of Health on May 5. Officials said a test analysis conducted between April 13-20 had identified 130 predictions of critical points, each of which was declared a real key point by the ministry within 3-17 days.
“The team found that they have the analytical ability to say that some regions could be stronger locations for positive people. Once they saw that plausibility, they immediately transmitted it to the Ministry of Health. And that is now being done constantly, ”said Vijay Raghavan.
“The Ministry of Health will use it. They transmit it to the states and districts. This is very recent and important information. The idea now is that the ability to predict a potential access point should translate into preventing that access point from occurring. You want to prevent that prediction from happening with your intervention. That is what they will do now, “he said.
More than 9.57 crore Indians have downloaded the app, which launched early last month. In addition to government entities, a team of industry volunteers from companies such as MakeMyTrip, Indihood and 1Mg, and academics from IIT Madras and IISc Bangalore, participate in its operations.
More than 23 percent of the 8,500 people considered the highest risk for the application have turned out to be COVID-19 positive after the information was sent to ICMR.
“Aarogya Setu makes the dashboard safely available to the central ministry of health, state health departments, district collectors, district chief medical officers, and district surveillance officers. In the list, we specifically emphasize probable critical points in districts that the Ministry did not classify as red. This needs to be verified through ground-level activities to prevent them from becoming critical points, ”said Sawhney.
The team gave the example of Maharashtra, where more than 60 critical points distributed in 18 districts were listed. In addition to those on the list, Aarogya Setu’s team is also tracking more than 300 “emerging hot spots.”
“Wherever people have been able to download and keep their Bluetooth and GPS active, predictions work. If people have not done this, then you
📣 The Indian Express is now on Telegram. Click here to join our channel (@indianexpress) and stay updated with the latest headlines
For the latest news about the coronavirus outbreak, download the Indian Express app.
.
[ad_2]
