NEW DELHI: India has stolen a march over other global tech giants by launching the Aarogya Setu app which helps significantly in contact tracing and curbing the spread of the dreaded Covid-19 pandemic with experts and multilateral agencies terming it as a useful innovation to stop the disease from spreading.
Days after the launch of the app, global tech majors Apple and Google said on Saturday that they were building a software into smartphones that would help in contact tracing and inform users whether they were in touch with Covid-19 infected persons.
“India leads the way in contact tracing for Covid-19: privacy first by design, secure, robust and scalable to billion users. Glad to see Apple and Google joining hands to develop contact tracing on the lines of Aarogya Setu,” NITI Aayog Amitabh Kant said on Twitter tagging Apple CEO Tim Cook and Google CEO Sundar Pichai.
India leads the way