ISLAMABAD: Furthering its streak of tangible contributions to help the Government steer the country through the COVID-19 outbreak, researchers at the National Centre of Robotics & Automation (NCRA), NUST College of Electrical & Mechanical Engineering (CEME), have developed a bilingual (Urdu and English) screening app, which is the world’s first Urdu app for Android, enabling Pakistanis to self-screen for COVID-19.
Developed at the NCRA's Robot Design & Development (RDD) Lab, the app, named COVID CHECK PAKISTAN, has been used for over 8000 screenings (and counting) in 9 different countries, including US, UK, UAE and Saudi Arabia, within the first 2 days of its beta rollout on March 23, 2020.
The app enables citizens to screen for COVID-19, while staying at home, and not putting themselves and others at risk by going to hospitals. The app is available at http://ncra.org.pk/covid/ The screening app is one of the indigenous products NUST has developed to counter the pandemic, which were put on display during the visit of Federal Minister for Science & Technology, Chaudhry Fawad Hussain, to NUST on April 2, 2020.
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