Equity Group CEO Dr James Mwangi’s Ksh100 million funded innovation centre has partnered with Meru University of Science and Technology and Nai Multitechnology Innovations (NaiTech) to build Africa’s first COVID-19 application.
The application can “isolate, track and monitor” coronavirus cases with utmost precision within the community.
It has features that help in targeted tracing of suspected cases within the populace with a lot of accuracies.
The app dubbed CovIdent has other features that make it easy for the government to roll out countermeasures against coronavirus which will see the revival of businesses in the country.
It will also help in restoring confidence among Kenyans that the government has taken the right measures and is doing everything it can in dealing with the pandemic.
NaiTech CEO Eng Bundi Kotonya together with Meru University Vice-Chancellor Prof Romanus Odhiambo noted that the app was jointly built by software developers and engineers whose work revolves around system development.
“The system also helps reduce the amount of time spent by medics in doing clerical and recording of patient details, hence ensuring that their focus is on the core business,” Kotonya added.
The app also guarantees high confidentiality levels “of a patient or test subject as samples will not be assigned a human-readable name.”
