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Aarogya Setu’s new feature — more information about Bluetooth contacts; few unanswered questions

Aarogya Setu

Over the weekend, Aarogya Setu released a new feature for Android users that allows users to find out the number of other Aarogya Setu users they have been in close proximity with since they installed the app or in the last 30 days. Under the health status on the home screen of the app, users can choose to view their Bluetooth contacts. This feature was formally released on Sunday but a Twitter user spotted it on Friday night. It is not available for iOS devices yet. The open-source Android code on GitHub has not been updated to show the code for this feature; the last update there was made a month ago. [caption id="attachment_217880" align="aligncenter" width="550"] Android version of Aarogya Setu allows users to see the Bluetooth contacts. | Credit: Aroon Deep[/caption] As per the official Aarogya Setu Twitter account, to see the "indicative status" of the Bluetooth contacts, users must consent to upload their Bluetooth and location data, which is what was required. Without uploading the data, we could only see that we had 10 Bluetooth contacts, not their indicative status. “Indicative status” lists the number of Bluetooth contacts that are infected (red text), or at high risk (orange text), or at moderate risk (yellow text), or at low risk/healthy (green text). The indicative status of some users is marked as "unknown" (grey text) but it is not clear why. It could be because those users have not taken the self-assessment test on the app, but that is speculation…

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