): Yes, Sir. Aarogya Setu has 17.05 Cr. registered users. The state wise break-up of the users is attached in Annexure I.
(a) and (c): Yes, Sir. In a country with more than a billion people, testing (for COVID19) of the entire population is a humongous task. The testing of the individuals (who are at risk of infection) is something which needs to be done at the early stage and such individuals need to be quarantined so as to prevent the transmission of the infection to other people. Here Aarogya Setu played a key role by identifying the individuals of high risk at an early stage, thereby prioritizing their testing, and for taking necessary medical and administrative measures. Aarogya Setu has helped in identifying more than 1.00 Cr. individuals (at risk) through contact tracing. The positivity rate of Aarogya Setu is currently around 25%, which means that 25% of Aarogya Setu users (identified at risk through contact tracing) turned out to be COVID-19 positive, when tested for Covid-19.
(d): Yes, Sir. The App has been developed by National Informatics Centre. Aarogya Setu has been developed with “privacy-first by design” as a key principle. Aarogya Setu has implemented some of the best and widely accepted privacy features and practices, including anonymization, data minimization, purpose & use limitation and data retention principles. The key privacy practices followed by the App are :
i. Personal information provided at the time of registration is immediately anonymized and all subsequent transactions are related to a specific Device Identification Number (DiD) that is assigned to the user by the Aarogya Setu server.
ii. By default, all contact tracing and location information that is collected, is stored locally on the user’s mobile device. This information is only uploaded to the Aarogya Setu server if the user tests positive for COVID-19. The location information is also recorded when the user takes the self-assessment and it is sent to the server along with the user’s response to self-assessment.
iii. All contact tracing and location information is stored on the user mobile device and not uploaded to the Aarogya Setu servers and is permanently deleted from the phone on a rolling 30-day cycle. All the contact tracing and location information that might have been uploaded to the Aarogya Setu server is permanently deleted after 45 days from the date of upload if the user has not tested positive for COVID-19 within that period of time. If the user is infected, all contact tracing and location information pertaining to the user is permanently deleted from the server after 60 days after the user is declared cured of COVID-19.
iv. Further, the privacy policy explicitly limits the purposes for which this data will be used i.e. only for assisting the user and generating insights to help the Government of India in its COVID-19 mitigation efforts.
(e): The App has been developed by NIC and the ownership of the Aarogya Setu rests with NIC under MeitY. The website ‘aarogyasetu.gov.in’ is also developed by NIC. As the Aarogya Setu is owned by Government, the website for Aarogya Setu has been registered with ‘gov.in’ domain.
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Annexure I
States/UTs wise total number of downloads
Geo_State Count
Andaman & Nicobar 66003
Andhra Pradesh 6585668
Arunachal Pradesh 190473
Assam 1758160
Bihar 8048790
Chandigarh 557943
Chhattisgarh 2519638
Dadra & Nagar Have 148829
Daman & Diu 99023
Delhi 8580861
Goa 510920
Gujarat 8984196
Haryana 6756916
Himachal Pradesh 1559238
Jammu & Kashmir 1267380
Jharkhand 2946895
Karnataka 9302512
Kerala 2137293
Ladakh 76934
Lakshadweep 1981
Madhya Pradesh 7442708
Maharashtra 19367364
Manipur 162069
Meghalaya 140193
Mizoram 61247
Nagaland 137086
Odisha 2909471
Puducherry 138949
Punjab 3459584
Rajasthan 7472629
Sikkim 165244
Tamil Nadu 5110133
Telangana 5407787
Tripura 275631
Uttar Pradesh 23702046
Uttarakhand 2276842
West Bengal 6986278
Note: Some users have not provided their location information. So the counts of such users are not included in the detailed state wise breakup.
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