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‘Corona-Scan’ and ‘Corona-Support’ apps

  • Posted By
    10Pointer
  • Categories
    Science & Technology
  • Published
    23rd Mar, 2020
  • In response to a call by Prime Minister for solutions to check the spread of the deadly Covid-19, the engineering students of Sona College of Technology, Salem and engineers of Vee Technologies, Bengaluru have created two apps.
  • The first of these, ‘Corona-Scan’ proactively allows public health officials to map individuals who were in close proximity with a possibly infected or active Corona Virus patient.
  • The second is a corresponding user app, ‘Corona-Support’ asks the public for their voluntary registration.
  • If an individual tests positive a voluntary status update can be entered in the app, helping health authorities and experts tracking the spread of the virus get accurate information.
  • The ‘Carona-Support’ app is intended to be of immense value to anyone wishing to protect the community from further spread.
  • Students of the Thiagarajar Polytechnic College, a Sona group institution, built an energy efficient “e-bike Fuerza” that won the first prize in 2019 competition by AICTE.

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