Introduction to “COVID 19 TRACKER”

Synopsis
Submitted in partial fulfillment of the
requirements for the award of the degree
of Bachelors of Computer Applications

Submitted by
Sahil Dogra & SahilKumar

(Enrollment No.: H14454 & H14605)

Under the supervision of

Vinod kumar&Chandankumar (Assist. Professor, C.S.E)

COMPUTER SCIENCE ENGINEERING

CAREER POINT UNIVERSITY HAMIRPUR
TIKKER (KHARWARIAN), BHORANJ
HAMIRPUR (HP) – 176041, INDIA
 Introduction including Literature Review

A new respiratory infectious disease, COVID-19, caused by a new coronavirus called

SARS-CoV-2, emerged in early December 2019. Since then, the virus has spread to India
and 106 other countries in Asia, Europe, North America, Africa, and Oceania. On March 11,
the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the outbreak a pandemic, which has since
rapidly evolved. As an economic hub with substantial global connectivity and movement of
people and goods, India is directly impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. Although it is too
early to gauge the full spectrum of the outbreak’s social and economic impacts, COVID-19
has already caused lockdowns in China, Korea, and in many countries in Europe, and in
some states of India, suspension of schools and universities, disruption of food systems and
other supply chains, as well as a slowdown in trade between India and rest of the world.
As part of the Fast Track COVID-19 Response Program1 , the proposed India COVID-19
Emergency Response and Health Systems Preparedness Project is a four-year project with
US$1 billion from the World Bank’s COVID19 Fast-Track Facility. The priority areas
identified under the project is to build on the GOI’s response to date and are informed by
international best practice and WHO’s Guidance Note on COVID-19 emergency response;
(ii) The GOI’s Draft COVID-19 Containment Plan; WHO COVID-19 Country Preparedness
& Response Note (February 2019); World Bank Fast Track COVID-19 Facility Board
Paper; Best Practices from China (Policy Notes on Lessons Learned from SARS and Other
Outbreaks); and summary of Core Lessons from Bank Health Emergency Operations.
: Strengthening National and State Health Systems to Support Prevention and Preparedness:
The component will support GOI to build resilient health systems to provide core public
health, prevention and patient management functions to manage COVID-19 and future
disease outbreaks. Key activities include: (i) Revamping hospitals for air borne infection
control; (ii) Revamp of Infectious Disease Hospitals and Districts Hospitals with single
occupancy air borne infection isolation rooms (also called negative-pressure isolation
rooms) to prevent spread of infection from and between patients; (iii) Building or upgrading
laboratory testing systems through building network of Biosafety Level 3, high containment
laboratories with high biosafety standards in the country to meet the requirements of testing
for COVID-19, future pandemics or bioterrorism attacks; (iv) Expanding point of-care
molecular testing for viral disease in sub-district and district laboratories and sample
transport mechanisms; (iv) Improving disease surveillance systems and health information
systems across the country by strengthening the Integrated Disease Surveillance Program
(IDSP) and integration of all health information; (v) Surge in community-based disease
surveillance capacity through increased personnel and use of ICT systems to track and
monitor infectious outbreaks; (vi) Developing human resources with core competencies in
integrated disease surveillance across different states and at the central level to track and
monitor current and new disease out breaks. Public health workforce development will be
supported to ensure that a complete spectrum of expertise is covered, including
epidemiologists, data managers, laboratory technicians, emergency management and risk
communications specialists, and public health managers.

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 Provides summary tables of COVID-19 vaccine candidates in both clinical and pre-
clinical development;
 Provides analysis and visualization for several COVID-19 vaccine candidate
categories;
 Tracks the progress of each vaccine from pre-clinical, Phase 1, Phase 2 through to
Phase 3 efficacy studies and including Phase 4 registered as interventional studies;
 Provides links to published reports on safety, immunogenicity and efficacy data of
the vaccine candidates;
 Includes information on key attributes of each vaccine candidate and

 Allows users to search for COVID-19 vaccines through various criteria such as
vaccine platform, schedule of vaccination, route of administration, developer, trial
phase and clinical endpoints

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Objective

This systematic review aims to shed light into studies found in the scientific literature that
have used and evaluated mobile apps for the prevention, management, treatment, or follow-
up of COVID-19.

Methods

We searched the bibliographic databases Global Literature on Coronavirus Disease,

PubMed, and Scopus to identify papers focusing on mobile apps for COVID-19 that show
evidence of their real-life use and have been developed involving clinical professionals in
their design or validation.

Results

Mobile apps have been implemented for training, information sharing, risk assessment, self-
management of symptoms, contact tracing, home monitoring, and decision making, rapidly
offering effective and usable tools for managing the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Requirement Analysis

Digital tools for COVID-19 contact tracing

Digital tools can play a role in enhancing contact tracing activities, when they are
effectively integrated into an existing public health system. This document provides a
classification of digital tools used to support contact tracing processes as well as
considerations for their implementation, including opportunities and challenges.

Requirements Hardware

Covid19 tracker is used as national health information system platform for integrated data
management and analysis for program monitoring and evaluation in 70+ countries. It is
primarily used for reporting and analysis of routine health data; but also serves as a de facto
facility registry, can be deployed for service availability mapping and other periodic survey
activities, and as a data warehouse to facilitate integrated analysis. Increasingly, it is also
used as a ‘last-mile’ solution for logistics monitoring, particularly at health facility level.

Software Requirements

A Web browser that can access the internet.

Application security is vital

As a global leader in innovation, Synopsys understands the challenges and roadblocks
associated with the development process, particularly the difficulties of AppSec. The
importance of application security, especially given that users will need to share personal
data in any track and trace app, can’t be overstated, but it seems to have largely taken a back
seat in the preliminary wave of track and trace apps. Numerous reports have already
emerged noting privacy failures, potential hacking events, and development U-turns.

Challenge considerations: User adoption

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Perhaps the most pressing challenge of a successful track and trace application is user
adoption. Personal data concerns, motivations for use, and overall security doubts pose a
challenge—and that’s before an application even enters the development phase. Synopsys
senior security consultant Bhavin Shah notes that an application would need a minimum of
60% user adoption to be at all effective.

COVID-19 Specific Functions

Digital packages for COVID-19 capitalize on the core functionality of DHIS2 and the
DHIS2 Android Capture app to support COVID-19 surveillance and response activities.
COVID-19 metadata packages are modular in nature and can be installed together or
separately in a country’s DHIS2 system:

COVID-19 Case-based surveillance [tracker data model]: enrolls & tracks suspected cases;
captures symptoms, demographics, risk factors & exposures; creates lab requests and
captures laboratory data about the case; links confirmed cases with contacts; and monitors
patient outcomes. This package can be installed as a standalone COVID-19 form or can be
integrated into a country’s existing integrated disease surveillance & response tracker.

Contact registration & follow-up program [tracker data model]: strengthens active case
detection through contact tracing activities, such as identification and follow-up of contacts
of a suspected or confirmed COVID-19 case.

Type of Digital Tool

Health Information System for aggregate and case-based data, contact tracing, ports of
entry, analysis, mapping, dashboards, and mobile data collection.

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Conclusions

Mobile apps are considered to be a valuable tool for citizens, health professionals, and
decision makers in facing critical challenges imposed by the pandemic, such as reducing the
burden on hospitals, providing access to credible information, tracking the symptoms and
mental health of individuals, and discovering new predictors.

Keywords: mobile apps, systematic survey, COVID-19, mobile health, eHealth

Future Scope

• Currently the client application is only available for Android. So we need to

add the support for iOS.
• Add the ability to share announcements within the application to spread the
information ASAP.

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References
[1] https://stackoverflow.com/
[2] https://reactjs.org/
[3] https://expressjs.com/
[4] https://nodejs.org/en/
[5] https://flutter.d

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