Aarogya Sethu App Current Affairs, GK & News

Co-WIN develops new API called KYC-VS

September 11, 2021

Central government announced an Aadhaar-like authentication system on September 10, 2021 to access the covid vaccination status of an individual on the CoWin platform. Highlights This new application programming interface (API) has been developed by CoWin. It is called ‘Know Your Customer’s or Client’s Vaccination Status’ or KYC-VS. The API was developed as an extra ..

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“Who Created Arogya Setu” issue: NIC rejects its role in creation in a RTI query

October 29, 2020

The National Informatics Centre recently claimed that it did not create the Arogya Setu mobile application. NIC claimed so in its reply to a Right to Information Query. Highlights The Ministry of Electronics and IT had earlier claimed that the Arogya Setu Application was launched by Government of India in Public-Private Partnership mode. According to ..

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Aarogya Setu team launches ‘Open API Service’ for better operation

August 22, 2020

India’s self-assessed digital healthcare service app Aarogya Setu has come up with a new feature called the Open API Service, which allows the organizations to check the health status of their employees or any other user as well without creating any privacy issue. What is ‘Open API Service’? An open API is a publicly available ..

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Government launches surveillance apps to tackle COVID-19

April 3, 2020

The government has launched the Aarogya Sethu mobile app to help with the fight against COVID-19. Earlier, it had launched the Corona Kavach app. Aarogya Sethu App The Aarogya Sethu app was launched by the Ministry of Electronics and IT. The mobile app allows its users to check whether they had been in contact with ..

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