Manjiri Karve

Aarogya Setu mobile app launched by the Indian Government to effectively implement COVID-19 contact tracing, on April 2, 2020 had 5 million downloads in merely three days of its launch and 50 million in 13 days. In fact, it became the world’s fastest growing app beating Pokémon Go. India’s app was the second in the world to go live after Singapore’s Trace Together. Aarogya Setu gives real-time updates on your risk of catching the virus.

While India fights hard to curb the COVID-19 pandemic, the crisis has once again brought to light why India as a whole, and particularly some cities of the country, have become so vulnerable to the disease. While there is a lot of noise happening on better planning, affordable housing, quality of life, etc.