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Coronavirus spread: Aarogya Setu tops charts with 75 million downloads

Contact-tracing apps to track the spread of Covid-19 have been developed in at least 23 countries, according to research firm Top10VPN.

Aarogya Setu app
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Aarogya Setu app

Neha Alawadhi
With over 75 million downloads as of Friday, Aarogya Setu has become the most downloaded contact-tracing app in the world, even as it is not yet mandatory for citizens to download the application.
 
Contact-tracing apps have been developed in at least 23 countries, with a lot more scheduled to be rolled out soon, according to research firm Top10VPN. India has 16 such apps, including Aarogya Setu.
 
The purpose of a contact-tracing app is to help find those an infected person may have come in contact with, and contain the spread of the disease by alerting contacts.
 
Aarogya Setu was the