{"id":167077,"date":"2020-03-11T09:05:34","date_gmt":"2020-03-11T09:05:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/punjabpost.in\/welcome\/?p=167077"},"modified":"2020-03-11T09:05:34","modified_gmt":"2020-03-11T09:05:34","slug":"chief-secretary-launches-cova-punjab-mobile-app","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/punjabpost.in\/welcome\/167077","title":{"rendered":"Chief Secretary launches \u201cCova Punjab\u201d Mobile App"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14.0pt; color: red;\">Mobile App to sensitize people about precautions from Novel Corona Virus<\/span><\/strong><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white; margin: 0in 0in 7.5pt;\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-166610 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/punjabpost.in\/welcome\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Corona-Virus.jpg\" alt=\"Corona Virus\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/punjabpost.in\/welcome\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Corona-Virus.jpg 500w, https:\/\/punjabpost.in\/welcome\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Corona-Virus-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/>Chandigarh, March 11 (Punjab Post Bureau) &#8211; <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 11.5pt; color: #333333;\">In a bid to sensitize and avert people of state from Novel Corona Virus (COVID-19), Punjab Chief Secretary Mr. Karan Avtar Singh on Monday held a high level meeting of State Management Covid-19 Group here.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in; margin-bottom: .0001pt; text-align: justify; background: white;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.5pt; color: #333333;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;During the meeting, the Chief Secretary launched \u201cCOVA Punjab\u201d Mobile Application. COVA stands for Corona Virus Alert, and has been developed by Department of Government Reforms and Public Grievances in consultation with Health and Family Welfare Department to spread awareness by sharing various Traveling and Preventive care advisories.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in; margin-bottom: .0001pt; text-align: justify; background: white;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.5pt; color: #333333;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Mr. Karan Avtar Singh said that the application provides options to citizens to check out for symptoms as provided by the government from time to time and follow the advisory given there-after. The App also suggests the nearest hospital and nodal officer of district where the citizen can reach in-case he is corona symptomatic.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in; margin-bottom: .0001pt; text-align: justify; background: white;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.5pt; color: #333333;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Additional Chief Secretary Governance Reforms Mrs. Vini Mahajan said that the App provides information that citizens need to be aware of in order to prevent themselves and their family members from COVID-19 virus. She further said that the App is available at Android Play Store and iOS AppStore with name \u201cCOVA Punjab\u201d. She also advised citizens to keep this App in their phones so that they can be informed on various government advisories at the earliest.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in; margin-bottom: .0001pt; text-align: justify; background: white;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.5pt; color: #333333;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Principal Secretary Health Mr. Anurag Aggarwal said that citizens will be shared with regular updates and instructions being passed by the government from time to time via this App. He informed that a real time counter is also provided with dynamic map on the App which will keep citizens updated about the status of spread of Corona in the state.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in; margin-bottom: .0001pt; text-align: justify; background: white;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.5pt; color: #333333;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The meeting was attended by Additional Chief Secretary Home Mr. Satish Chandra, Additional Chief Secretary Local Government Mr. Sanjay Kumar, Principal Secretary Food and Civil Supplies Mr. K.A.P Sinha, Principal Secretary Medical Education and Research Mr. D.K. Tiwari, Secretary Information and Public Relations Department Mr. Gurkirat Kirpal Singh, Secretary Health Mr. Kumar Rahul, Secretary Governance Reforms Mr. Ravi Bhagat, Secretary Health Mr. Manvesh Singh Sidhu, Director Governance Reforms Mr. Parminder Pal Singh and Director Health Dr. Avneet Kaur.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mobile App to sensitize people about precautions from Novel Corona Virus Chandigarh, March 11 (Punjab Post Bureau) &#8211; In a bid to sensitize and avert people of state from Novel Corona Virus (COVID-19), Punjab Chief Secretary Mr. Karan Avtar Singh on Monday held a high level meeting of State Management Covid-19 Group here. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;During the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":166610,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-167077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-punjabnews"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Chief Secretary launches \u201cCova Punjab\u201d Mobile App | Punjab Post<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/punjabpost.in\/welcome\/167077\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Chief Secretary launches \u201cCova Punjab\u201d Mobile App | Punjab Post\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Mobile App to sensitize people about precautions from Novel Corona Virus Chandigarh, March 11 (Punjab Post Bureau) &#8211; 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