aarogya setu: Aarogya Setu app alerted government to 300 ’emerging hotspots’ that could have been lost: Niti Aayog CEO

NEW DELHI: Aarogya Setu, the government’s mobile application developed to track patients with COVID-19, has become a powerful tool in slowing down the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus, helping to alert authorities to more than 650 points critics across the country and over 300 “emerging hotspots” that might otherwise have been lost.

Since its launch on April 2 this year, more than 96 million people have registered with the Aarogya Setu healthcare application, which has become the fastest mobile application to reach 50 million users worldwide. and he will be one of the people who will enter the 100 million clubs the fastest. The Aarogya Setu has assisted the government with its dual objective: “who to prove” and “where to prove more” in its battle against COVID-19.

Speaking to ANI, Niti Ayog CEO Amitabh Kant said: “For example, in Maharashtra, the engine identified more than 60 hotspots in 18 districts. Across the country, the engine predicted around 130 hotspots in the post office level between April 13 and April 20. Later, these predicted access points were declared “real access points” by the Union Ministry of Health about 3 to 17 days after being alerted by Aarogya Setu In this way, the engine assisted the government with “who to test” and “where to test” more “against the coronavirus.”

“The Aarogya Setu app alerted the government to more than 650 access points across the country and more than 300 emerging access points that could have been lost otherwise. It provides an accurate forecast of access points and is also avoiding origin of newer access points. The engine has generated incredible insights and impact with accurate projections of location, direction and speed of spread of infection, “he said.

The head of Niti Ayog reported that, so far, around 69 million people have taken the self-assessment test, an adoption rate of more than 71 percent, of which, more than 3.4 million people have declared wrong since they showed one. or more than three symptoms.

With this, a dedicated team of more than 70 health workers reached out to people who showed two or more than two symptoms of COVID-19. “This is how a dedicated team of more than 70 health workers approached about 650,000 people showed two or more symptoms. More than 16,000 people have received follow-up teleconsultation from doctors, “he said.

At least 12,500 users, who downloaded the Aarogya Setu, have detected positive for COVID-19 so far. Bluetooth-based interaction data has led to around 60,000 people being evaluated and alerted at various degrees of risk including self-isolation, quarantine, and testing. Approximately 8,500 people have tested the pool of people assessed as high risk and of whom more than 23% have tested positive for COVID-19 so far, providing outstanding test accuracy. The effectiveness of the tests recommended by Aarogya Setu is much higher than any test protocol anywhere in the world and is much higher than the current overall efficiency of tests in India, Kant said. The Aarogya Setu app is available in 12 different languages ​​and will soon be expanded to the 22 scheduled Indian languages, added Niti CEO Aayog.