Digital process for tracking COVID 19

Digital process for tracking COVID 19

March 15th

The Government has taken a number of measures for tracing / tracking of patients with corona virus and other infectious diseases in the country, as given below :-

Integrated Disease Surveillance Programme(IDSP) :-  Under IDSP, Surveillance units have been made in all States and District Headquarters and are reporting weekly data on epidemic prone diseases. The data is collected to monitor disease trends and to detect and respond to outbreaks in early rising phase through trained Rapid Response Teams (RRTs). The IDSP has also been geared up in connection with Covid-19 to track and follow up passengers coming from various countries like China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, etc. Aarogya Setu App is an app made by Ministry of Electronics and IT for Covid 19 contact tracing, symptoms mapping and self-assessment. It also helps in identification of Covid clusters. COWIN App is a digital platform developed by Ministry of Health and Family Welfare to help agencies keep a track of Covid vaccination programme and allowing Indian citizens to apply for the Covid 19 vaccine shot. Covid India Portal and Testing Portal made by Ministry of Health and FW for collecting state specific data pertaining to various aspects of Covid 19 management such as number of cases, infrastructure availability testing, etc. The IDSP is done under the National Health Mission in allStates/UTs with the objective to detect and respond todisease outbreaks due to epidemic prone diseases. Toprevent the spread of such outbreaks, under IDSPStates/UTs are provided with additional manpower,training of identified Rapid Response Team (RRT)members for outbreak investigations, strengthening of laboratories for detection of epidemic prone diseases, IT equipment for data entry, analysis and data transfer. Also the health awareness media campaigns from central level by this Ministry are released through Bureau of Outreach and  Communication, Doordarshan, All India Radio, etc.  The details of expenditure incurred during last five years by this ministry under Swastha Nagrik Abhiyan (SNA) are as under :-

The Minister of State (Health and Family Welfare), Sh. Ashwini Kumar Choubey told this in a written reply in the LokSabha.