Aarogya Setu app receives praise from World Bank,others

New Delhi,April 13(HS)The Aarogya Setu, a tracking app developed in the country under public-private -partnership model,which would help defeat the Coronavirus,has been applauded by several organisations including the World Bank.

Several individual have also found it “a useful innovation to stop the disease from spreading”.Niti Aayog CEO Amitabh Kant has expressed happiness over the fact that two technical giants,Apple and Google, have liked it.it.. “ Glad to see Apple and Google joining hands to develop contact tracing on the lines of Aarogya Setu,” his tweets reads.

These two companies would build a software into their smartphones which would inform users whether they were in touch with persons infected with Covid-19.It was announced on Saturday a few days after the launch.

Some organisations have raised privacy issue but most others have not attached much importance to it.”The major concern at present is this pandemic disease.All other issues can be considered later”, a doctor here said.