On Friday the Gujarat government launched a mobile application that tracks the movement of those who were suspected of Corona virus and were asked to follow home quarantine. The ‘GIS’ based app was launched in several cities of Gujarat like Ahmedabad, Gandhinagar, Vadodara and Rajkot.
The Surat Municipal commission is already using the application to track 3,600 home-quarantined people in the city. Apart from GIS mapping, the app is also equipped with ‘Geo Fencing’ to alert the authorities if the person moves away from a specific area. It will help them to track the movements of around 20,000 persons who are under home quarantine.
The Gujarat police have so far lodged complaints against 298 persons for violating home quarantine. Around 3,600 home-quarantined persons in Surat have been asked to install “SMC COVID-19 Tracker”. “The app helps authority to track and collect latest information about people who are home-quarantined. The application is also helping them to moniter health of those people.
After installing the app, the user is asked to provide his/her current location as well as travel history. after that the user is required to push a button called “Send Location” to update their whereabouts each hour. If the user moves out from house or the specified area, he/she will bw sent to institutional quarantine.
