The Centre has taken three digital initiatives amid resurge in pandemic cases for tracking, tracing and vaccinating the patients of Covid-19 and other infectious diseases. Ashwini Kumar Choubey, minister of state for health and family welfare informed in parliament on Monday that the Union Health Ministry has rolled out Aarogya Setu, CoWIN and Covid-India portal to track and trace the patients and their contacts infected by the novel coronavirus.

Aarogya Setu application is an App developed by the Ministry of Electronics and IT for Covid-19 contact tracing, symptoms mapping and self-assessment. It also helps in identification of Covid-19 clusters. Covid-India Portal developed by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoH&FW) for collecting state specific data pertaining to various aspects of Covid-19 management such as number of cases, infrastructure availability testing, etc.