Startup Founders Team Up To Make Coronavirus Quarantine App for India

Editorials News | Mar-28-2020

Startup Founders Team Up To Make Coronavirus Quarantine App for India

To solve real problems, India’s startup ecosystem has shown over the years that it’s capable of coming together. Some of India’s brightest entrepreneurs have now come together, at a time where the world is struggling to fight the novel coronavirus pandemic, to fight the spread of this deadly coronavirus through unique solutions.
Some of the entrepreneurs who are part of this team include Kunal Shah-Cred’s founder, Kunal Bahl -Snapdeal’s founder, Rajesh Yabaji - Blackbuck’s founder, Gaurav Munjal - Unacademy’s founder, among others.
Over 800 positive cases of coronavirus and Covid-19 along with nineteen deaths has registered in India so far. The situation in India is comparably better, as compared to other parts of the world; this may be a result of inadequate testing. In the next week, the number of cases is expected to rise significantly, and efforts are on to ‘flatten the curve’ of cases.
Around 70 startup founders and investors wrote to the government to enforce a lockdown and forcing citizens into quarantine, to curb this from getting out of control. To develop the Quarantine App, these founders and product managers have teamed up.
Founder of two-wheeler rental platform Bounce, Vivekananda Hallekere and one of the signatories to the letter, told that they will assist the government to track people who have been advised to the self-quarantine or those have tested positive and are recovering at home in isolation.
The app will use location tracking to keep an eye on the movement of those who have been advised to be under self-quarantine or those have tested positive, told Hallekere. People coming from overseas need to be tracked as they don’t know whether they have been infected or not. These people can self-declare themselves as quarantined, using the application.
The team is also working on finding solutions to many other problems such as developing quarantine infrastructure, supply chain management of essential products, data-driven analysis and models for India, and even developing a healthcare capacity for stage three or community transmission of coronavirus.
All the data made from this application will be publicly obtainable on a government platform which is aroused by the team of startups and founders.

By: Suvarna Gupta
Content: https://inc42.com/buzz/startup-founders-team-up-to-make-coronavirus-quarantine-app-for-india/


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