The app that sends the selfies will also send GPS coordinates so that officials can verify the person’s location.
People in India maintain the recommended distance while waiting to receive free grocery items distributed by police officials during a government-imposed nationwide lockdown as a preventive measure against the coronavirus.
A state in southern India has come up with a controversial solution to make sure that people quarantined at home to curb the spread of the coronavirus stay at home: it wants them to send a selfie to the government every waking hour. According to the Minister of Medical Education of the state of Karnataka, quarantined people will be required to download an app on their phones, through which they must take and send a selfie every hour to government officials from 7 am to 10 pm. The app will also send the person’s GPS coordinates, so that officials can verify the person’s location.
If a quarantined person doesn’t send a selfie, they might transferred be to one of the Indian government’s quarantine centers, which have become“Every selfie sent by Home Quarantine [sic] person is seen by Government Photo Verification team,” a press release from the ministry said. “So if wrong photos are sent then also defaulter will be shifted to Mass Quarantine.”
K. Sudhakar, Karnataka’s Minister of Medical Education, did not respond to a request for comment from BuzzFeed News. Three other officials at the Karnataka Health Department did not respond to requests for comment.
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