Digital Tools by Government of India in response to COVID-19

The Aarogya Setu App enables people to assess themselves the risk for their catching the coronavirus infection.
It calculates this based on people's interaction with others, using cutting-edge Bluetooth technology, algorithms, and artificial intelligence.
Once installed in a smartphone through an easy and user-friendly process, the app detects other devices with Aarogya Setu installed that come in the proximity of that phone.
The App can then calculate the risk of infection based on sophisticated parameters if any of these contacts are tested positive.

The Government of India has launched a WhatsApp chatbot so that the citizens can get instant and authentic answers to all of their queries related to the Coronavirus pandemic.
Users have to drop a "Hi" on the number +91-9013151515 or can call on the MyGov Corona Helpdesk to get answers to pertinent queries such as the symptoms of the deadly disease, nearest COVID-19 testing facility.

It is a COVID-19 tracker application, created by the Union Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology in collaboration with the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare.
This application provides users with realtime location of infected users who have activated the ‗Kavach‘ feature.

This application has been developed by the centre to get direct feedback from people who have undergone coronavirus treatment in the country.

A 24x7 National Helpline number +91-11-23978046 and toll-free number 1075 have been launched where people can access corona related information by the government.
Also, the centre has an e-mail id ncov2019@gov.in to attend to queries of people related to the disease.

Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) has developed an app called ‘SAMPRAC’ to enable tracking people under quarantine.
It is a software that includes an app that can be installed on the smartphones of the infected COVID-19 patients.
It is a server-side application that is used by the state authorities to track the patients.
The system enables geofencing, AI-based automated face recognition (between selfie taken during registration and subsequent selfies sent by the patient), and would have the capability to display the information to the state officials on a map which can be color-coded to depict hotspots and containment zones.

The Survey of India (SoI) has developed an e-platform that collects geotagged information on the nation‘s critical infrastructure in order to help the government and public health agencies take critical decisions in response to the current COVID-19 pandemic situation.
The platform has geo-located information of hospitals, testing labs, quarantine camps, containment, and buffer zones as well as information on biomedical waste disposal sites.
The mobile-based application, called SAHYOG, works as a key tool in helping community workers carry out the government‘s objectives of door-to-door surveys, contact tracing, deliveries of essentials items, and create focused public awareness campaigns.