Central govt is passing on to states a list of over 600 potential hotspots at the sub-post office-level that were identified in an analysis conducted by developers of the Aarogya Setu app.
These potential hotspots of 6-9 km area each were determined by using the previous two-week location history of the over 12,500 COVID-19 patients.
Aarogya Setu is a contact-tracing app developed by the National Informatics Centre (NIC) under the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology.