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WHO chief lauds Aarogya Setu app, says it helped identify COVID-19 clusters

October 13, 2020, 2:53 PM

Amar Ashok Jajoo | Mumbai

WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Grebreyesus

WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Grebreyesus

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, DirectorGeneral, World Health Organization (WHO), has praised India’s Aarogya Setu app and has said that the app helped identify COVID-19 clusters. Ghebreyesus said in an official statement: Aarogya Setu app from India has been downloaded by 150 million users and has helped city public health departments to identify areas where clusters could be anticipated and expand testing in a targeted way.

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Other than India, Ghebreyesus also mentioned that contract tracing applications from countries like Germany (Corona Warn app) and United Kingdom (NHSs COVID-19 app) have also helped healthcare systems in tracing probable infected persons. Earlier, the World Bank had also praised Aarogya Setu app in its role in identifying COVID-19 hotspots.

Aarogya Setu, which was launched in April 2020, has been developed with an intention to help Indians self-assess and calculate their risk of contracting COVID-19.

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Active COVID cases near 30,000 mark in Nagpur

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4 years ago

January 25, 2022

Radhika Dhawad | Nagpur

Nagpur’s COVID-19 tally, on Tuesday, January 25, reached 5,43,064 (till 5 pm) as 4028 (972 from rural and 2956 from city) new cases were recorded in a single day.

Also, active COVID cases, as on Tuesday, could be seen inching closer to 30,000 mark in the district.

Six people lost their lives (one from rural and five from city) on Tuesday. Till now, 10,183 people have lost their lives due to COVID-19 in the district. Total tests taken were 11,377.

While patients who recovered on Tuesday were 2519, the total number of recovered patients stood at 503729.

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Nagpur reports 90 COVID cases in past 24 hours

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4 years ago

January 2, 2022

Radhika Dhawad | Nagpur

Nagpur’s COVID-19 tally on Sunday, January 2 reached 4,94,193 (till 5 pm) as 90 (73 city, nine rural) more people tested positive for the virus.

Also, five patients recovered on Sunday taking the number of recoveries to 4,83,664.

Till now, 10123 people have lost their lives due to COVID in the district. As of now, there are 406 active COVID patients in the district.

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ALARMING! Nagpur reports 88 COVID cases in past 24 hours

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4 years ago

December 31, 2021

Radhika Dhawad | Nagpur

Nagpur registered 88 (81 from city) new COVID-19 positive cases on Friday, December 31. Nagpur previously had recorded as minimum as six cases on December 24.