Ministry
of Electronics and Information Technology has released the backend code
of Aarogya Setu App in open domain. The source code of the Android and
iOS versions were released earlier and the backend source code is also
being released as per the policy of Government of India to share all
code repositories with developer community.
Ministry of Electronics
and IT in a statement said that Aarogya Setu has proved to be very
useful in India’s fight against COVID19 and rRelease of the source code
of the Aarogya Setu App is a step in the direction of reaffirming the
commitment of the Government to complete transparency.
The Ministry
said, the App has been downloaded by more than 16.43 crore users and has
greatly augmented the efforts of front line health workers in the fight
against COVID19. It has helped identify Bluetooth contacts of COVID
positive users and issued s for helping people to stay safe.
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