The word Svasa means breath or breathing in multiple ancient Indian languages including Sanskrit, Tamil and Hindi. It signifies life and good health. The app is developed by Valliappa Foundation, a community service organisation promoted by the Sona Valliappa Group. Founder Chockalingam Valliappa gave the task to a cross functional team from Sona College of Technology and Vee Technologies to design a comprehensive app that gave real-time updates and valuable home quarantine guidelines.

He said, “We saw that misinformation on social media was causing more harm than the pandemic itself. Most who were advised home isolation were left to fend for themselves without access to an authentic information source. The US team of Vee Technologies suggested that we engage with Johns Hopkins Medicine, a valuable customer, and request them to share their wealth of knowledge of handling the pandemic scientifically. Developing the Vee+Svasa app took about eight weeks and included about 100 student teams from Sona College of Technology talking to Salem citizens on their information needs on handling Covid infections.”

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Prior to this, the company created a contract tracing app in April 2021 that was used in several parts of Tamil Nadu and by large corporates. “As for Vee+Svasa, we are working on enhancing the app by adding more authentic videos by Johns Hopkins and will keep uploading as new information emerges,” he adds.

WHAT: Vee+ Svasa
WHERE: PlayStore; an app for the iOS platform  is awaiting release