What's the Corona Kavach app? All you need to know about the Indian Govt's COVID19 tracker

Coronavirus pandemic has become a matter of international concern with confirmed cases crossing mark of 597,267 and death of 27,365 people around globe. People need to safeguard mselves by practising social distancing. It has become important for government to test as many people as y can and find out more confirmed cases. count of confirmed cases in India has reached number of 873 patients with 149 new cases in just 24 hours. To find out more cases and to spre information about dangers of COVID-19, government has launched a new application called Corona Kavach.

What is Corona Kavach app?

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Corona Kavach app is developed by Ministry of Electronics and Information Techlogy (MeitY). software is a location-based Coronavirus tracker app which allows user to understand if y have come in contact with any COVID-19 positive patient. application also comes with or ded features that can track a person's breathing capacity, and a survey form which allows everyone to check symptoms, and guides m to see a doctor if needed.

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How effective is Corona Kavach app expected to be?

According to reports, beta version of Corona Kavach app has crossed 10,000 downlos on Play Store. MeitY said in a statement that "This Coronavirus tracker app is being developed in public interest to give information and capture outbreak of coronavirus. data will be used to conduct analysis and provide information about active COVID-19 cases in India."

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According to government's expectations, this coronavirus tracker app will help it monitor status of community spre of COVID-19, and keep citizens away from infected users. guidelines of Corona Kavach state that "Your location data stays offline and is shared only when re is a potential health risk." 

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Apart from this, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has offered to share Corona Kavach with or SAARC nations which include Pakistan, Afghanistan, Bhutan, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Maldives, and Banglesh. However, Corona Kavach has t officially released and only beta version is available currently.

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