The founders of Bounce, Urban Company, Snapdeal, Cred, and others came together to create the app.
This will allow citizens to quarantine, said Bounce founder Vivekananda Hallekere.
So far, more than 173 coronavirus cases have been recorded in India.
India’s startup ecosystem has proven over the years that it is capable of combining to solve genuine problems. And as the world battles the novel coronavirus pandemic, some of India’s brightest marketers have now combined to combat the spread of this deadly virus through exclusive solutions.
So far, India has recorded more than 173 positive cases of coronavirus and Covid-19, as well as 4 deaths. Compared to other parts of the world, the situation in India is relatively better, although this is possibly due to insufficient evidence. The number of cases is expected to rise, especially next week, and efforts are being made to “flatten the curve” of cases.
To prevent this from getting out of hand, around 70 startup founders and investors have written to the government to impose a lockdown and force citizens to quarantine, as has happened lately in Italy. Now, those founders and product managers have come together to expand. the Quarantine app.
The startup founders and investors organization had advised India to impose strict lockdowns and Section 144 or a curfew law against company gatherings in major cities until March 20 for two weeks.
Vivekananda Hallekere, founder of two-wheeler rental platform Bounce and one of the signatories of the letter, told us that the app would help the government track other people who have been asked to quarantine or who have tested positive and are recovering at home. . In isolation. ” Thanks to this, the government would be able to track each and every citizen who is in quarantine,” he told Inc42.
Hallekere said the app will use location tracking to monitor the movements of those who have been asked to quarantine or those who have tested positive. He said other people who come from there want to be monitored because they don’t know if they’ve been inflamed or not. Through the app, those other people can self-declare as quarantined. “The founders of the vernacular wisdom sharing platform Vokal Aprameya Radhakrishna and Mayank Bidawatka had proposed this app. It was Radhakrishna’s idea,” Hallekere added.
In addition to the app, news aggregation platforms such as DailyHunt and Lokal will also send coronavirus-related notifications and updates in local languages. Among the marketers who are part of this team are Cred’s founder, Kunal Shah, Snapdeal’s founder, Kunal. Bahl, Blackbuck founder Rajesh Yabaji, Unacademy founder Gaurav Munjal, among others.
The team is also working to find answers to many other disruptions, such as the progression of quarantine infrastructure, data-driven analytics and modeling for India, the control of the supply chain of products, and even the progression of sanitary capacity to level 3 or the network. transmission of the coronavirus.
Hallekere gave the example of the Singapore government conducting wonderful raids on the homes of other people who are being asked to quarantine. But in India, this solution is not entirely affordable for the government and that’s why an app like this will allow users to update their location with the government. Quarantined users will also be asked to upload photographs from home, he added.
All the knowledge generated from this application will be publicly available on a government platform developed through the team of startups and founders.
“Knowledge will help other people know where other people are staying in quarantine. It will also involve the history of those other people, which will help others avoid those places,” Hallekere added.
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