After downloading this COVID-19 risk-tracking app, you can easily track if you’ve crossed paths with someone who’s under quarantine or tested positive.is being developed jointly by the Union Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) in association with the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MHFW). The Android app classifies levels of coronavirus risk in green, orange, yellow, and red colors.

What is Aarogya Setu App?

Aarogya Setu is an user-friendly tracking application designed to connect essential health services with Indian citizens during the coronavirus lockdown and make COVID-19 related information accessible to the common people. It is already available on both Android and iOS smartphones.

This India’s first covid-19 app track the data of the users every one hour to alert them of whether they have crossed paths with any person who has tested positive for the infection. The application uses a person’s GPS location to assess whether they are in the high risk geographical zone or not.

The Aarogya Setu mobile app has been developed by the National Informatics Centre that comes under the Ministry of Electronics and IT. “It is aimed at augmenting the initiatives of the Government of India, particularly the the Department of Health, in proactively reaching out to and informing the users of the app regarding risks, best practices and relevant advisories pertaining to the containment of COVID-19” the app description noted at GooglePlay Store.

Know how Aarogya Setu Tracking App helps fight coronavirus

This state-of-the-art app makes users sign in using their smartphone to keep them informed if they have crossed paths with a host or carrier of coronavirus by tracking users movements through the GPS or Bluetooth whenever they come within the infection range during their visit a crowded place. The Government’s New Location-Based COVID-19 Tracking App is truly helpful in identifying the relevant chain of contact and the user will be alerted of the potential infection range so that they can act accordingly.

Interestingly, this app uses color coding to figure out whether the user has come in contact with a coronavirus carrier. While one color will identify a user who has never come in contact with an infected person, another will indicate if a user is in close proximity. The goal behind the launch of this app is to track down all the information of numerous identified positive cases of coronavirus in the country so far and take necessary measures to mitigate community spread.

This CoWin-20 mobile app comes in a small pendant form factor and it vibrates (and glow) as soon as someone breaches the user’s safe space of 1 metre (approx. 3.2 feet). CoWin-20, a very brilliant initiative by the Indian Government led by Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi, is equipped with a handwash reminder that beeps every 30 minutes to keep users reminding to wash their hands. The built-in temperature sensor in the app keeps alerting the users through an SMS in case their body temperature crosses the prescribed limit.

India’s Coronavirus Risk Tracking App becomes world’s highest downloaded app

NITI Aayog CEO, Amitabh Kant in his tweet has confirmed that the government’s recently launched Aarogya Setu application that tracks Covid-19 cases around, has reached over 50 million users as it has been downloaded by more than one crore people on both Android and iPhone smartphones. With this, India’s Aarogya Setu app has become the world’s highest downloaded app ever globally, overtook Nintendo’s popular augmented reality game ‘Pokémon GO’s’ record of 50 million downloads.

“We expected to touch 50 million users by April 15, but reached it a day before. There were 11 million downloads on Tuesday, which is the sharpest single-day surge in installations since the app was launched. PM Modi’s announcement led to a spike that peaked at 100,000 registrations per minute in the afternoon, at around 20,000 downloads per minute on average over the rest of the day,” said Arnab Kumar, programme director of frontier technologies, Niti Aayog. He is part of the team that developed the app.

How to download Aarogya Setu app?

Here are few steps every user need to follow to start using Narendra Modi’s Aarogya Setu Tracking App to fight against Coronavirus.

From the homepage, you can get some basic information about the number of people infected, the number of people cured, and the number of deaths. You can also go into the menu, and fill in the questionnaire so it knows your status. In case you come into contact with someone else who has set their status to infected, the app is supposed to issue an alert, but otherwise, that’s all you need to know about how to use the app.

Indeed, the all new Aarogya Setu – the India’s COVID-19 Risk Tracking Mobile App is a brilliant attempt by the Government of India to track COVID-19 positive cases across the nation and mitigate the further infection spread of Coronavirus.

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The ICU ventilators are the need of the hour in the challenging times as these high-specs machines would act as an interim lifesaver when the infection rate of COVID-19 in India was reported to be 1.7 with confirmed total number of 694 cases, 44 recoveries, 1 migration and 16 deaths in the nation.

In a tweet, Mr Anand Mahindra, Chairman of Mahindra Group applauded his team of engineers who were working hard at the company’s Igatpuri and Mumbai plants to make the first Mahindra & Mahindra Ambu Bag Ventilator prototype within just 48 hours.

What is an ambu bag ventilator?

The recently announced Artificial Manual-Breathing Unit (Ambu) Bag by the engineering teams of Mahindra & Mahindra company is a self-inflating machine. This game changer device is typically manufactured to help COVID-19 patients who are suffering from the breathing problems. A medical ventilator which has developed by a prototype of a bag valve mask is expected to work as a large number of low cost lifesavers.

“We are simultaneously working with an indigenous maker of ICU ventilators. These are sophisticated machines costing ₹5-10 lakhs. This device is an interim lifesaver and the team estimates that it will cost below ₹7,500,” Mahindra had said in his tweet. “We will seek guidance from specialists on the usefulness of the device.”

M&M Ventilators to be ready in 3 days

Mr Pawan Goenka, the Managing Director at M&M while sharing the organisation’s two-pronged approach to reduce ventilators shortage said on Twitter that the company hopes to have the prototype ready in 3 days for approval.

Once we get approval from the Indian Government, this design will be made available to all for manufacturing. He had added that M&M has teamed up two state-owned companies and an undisclosed manufacturer to simplify design and scale up production of ventilators in India.

“We along with 2 large PSUs are working with an existing manufacturer of high spec ventilators to help them to simplify design and scale up capacity. Our engineering team is right now with them working on it,” Goenka had said. We at Mahindra are overwhelmed with pouring in of support from individuals and companies for our effort to make available ventilators.” he added further.

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Also, Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has taken very necessary giant steps in order to safeguard economic slowdown which is caused by the coronavirus outbreak. In the Press Conference, RBI Governor Shaktikanta Das has announced a massive 75 basis points cut in repo rates to boost economic activities. Top economists and PM Narendra Modi strongly believe that the steps announced under RBI’s COVID-19 Rescue package would surely improve liquidity, reduce cost of funds on businesses/industries, help to attain a strong hold on financial stability.

2020 Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic in India is a major concern for citizens with the confirmed total number of 562 positive cases, 40 successful recoveries, 1 migration and sadly, 9 deaths in the nation. To prevent the COVID-19 infection that may drastically affect the entire 1.3 billion population of India, an honorable Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi took a wonderful initiative i.e. 14-hour voluntary public curfew and later India observed a nationwide lockdown for 21 days in 75 districts.

Coronavirus (COVID-19) Relief Measures Announced by Finance Ministry amid 21 day lockdown: Key Highlights

Finance Ministry told that the Economic Task Force will soon announce an economic relief package to deal with the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on the economy of India.

1. No ATM withdrawal charges: There will be no ATM withdrawal charges levied on withdrawal of money from ATM’s ; this is done to minimize the crowd coming to the banks and also to facilitate people to buy things needed for daily needs.

2. No Minimum balance requirement charges: Following the footsteps of State Bank of India, FM has waived off the minimum balance requirements in the savings account for the time being.

3. Aadhar – PAN mandatory linking has been postponed to June 30th instead of usual March 30th.

4. The last date for filling taxes has also been extended to June 30th instead of usual March 30th.

5. The last date for compliances under Income Tax Act, Wealth Tax Act, Benami Transaction Act, Black Money Act, Vivaad se Vishwaas, has also been extended to June 30, 2020.

6. For filling GST returns for March, April, May and composition returns, the date is now extended to June 30, 2020.

7. With respect to the MCA21 registry, there is a moratorium being issued from April 1 till Sep 30 no additional fees for late filing.

8. The Finance Ministry has relaxed for 60 days, for holding the mandatory Board meeting for companies.

9. For newly incorporated companies, additional time of six more months is being given for filing declaration of commencement of business.

10. If there is a Director of the company who does not comply with minimum residency requirement of 182 days, then earlier this was treated as a violation but not now as announced by the FM.

Surely, these coronavirus (COVID-19) relief measures will play a significant role in economy wither the crisis arising out of the outbreak. “At the moment, these relaxations are for three months. As we go along, we will consider the situation and take decisions accordingly,” the finance minister said.

Highlights from the RBI Governor Shaktikanta Das’ press conference held on March 27,2020

Here are highlights from the RBI Governor Shaktikanta Das’ press conference on March 27:

1. RBI will decrease policy repo rate by 75 basis points to 4.4%

2. RBI is closely observing the evolving market and macroeconomic situation.

3. Projection of growth and inflation depends on spread, intensity and duration of virus, hence RBI is not giving any guidelines on growth and inflation.

4. Announcements of Rs 3.74 lakh crore of liquidity injection into system through several measures.

5. India has locked down and financial activities are under severe stress.

6. RBI said that “Living in extraordinary situation; war effort needs to be mounted against coronavirus using conventional, unconventional tools”.

7. All lending institutions allowed three month moratorium for all term loans.

8. Cash reserve ratio (CRR) of all banks reduced by 100 basis points to 3% with effect from March 28 for 1 year; to release Rs 1.37 lakh crore liquidity into the system.

According to Reserve Bank of India Governor FM Sitharaman “The 3 month moratorium on payments of term loan instalments (EMI) & interest on working capital give much-desired relief. Slashed interest rate needs quick transmission.”

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