Arogya Setu wristbands to monitor COVID-19 patients? Govt says its fake
New Delhi, Apr 22: A prominent newspaper has claimed that the government is procuring wrist bands to monitor the movement of COVID-19 patients.
The claim is that the Centre is preparing to procure thousands of wristbands, which will be embedded with the Aarogya Setu app to monitor the movement of COVID-19 patients in hospitals and home quarantine.
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Claim : Centre is preparing to procure thousands of wristbands which will be embedded with its #ArogyaSetu app to monitor movements of #COVID2019india patients in hospital & home quarantine
Fact : there is no such move . Fake and baseless news pic.twitter.com/xyV7pNNCJT
The Press Information Bureau has termed this news as fake. There is no such news and this news is fake and baseless, PIB also said.