NITI Aayog announced that Arogya Setu became the first mobile application in the world to reach more than 50 million downloads in short span of time (Just 19 days).
With this, the mobile app has overtaken the record set by Nintendo’s popular “Pokemon GO” application on Google Play.
The application was used for contact tracing.
It is a COVID-19 tracking mobile application developed by the National Informatics Centre that comes under the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, Government of India.
Singapore Government had launched similar application called “Trace Together”.