A government-backed IT company in Bengaluru has built an application that has the capability of capturing one’s health statistics through a smart-phone through which it can determine one’s proneness to contracting COVID-19, Hindustan Times reported. According to the Ministry of Science and Technology, this ability of the application, to medically screen an individual, can play a big role in detecting the illness earlier and risk assessment of an infected population.

The application, named Lyfas, has been developed by Acculi Labs, a startup based in Bengaluru, in association with the Central government’s CAWACH (Centre for Augmenting WAR with Covid-19 Health Crisis) initiative. The Department of the Science and Technology (DST) under the ministry has given the application Rs 30 lakh-grant. Lyfas also has the virtual support of IIT Madras, Healthcare Technology Innovation Centre (HTIC), and MedTech Incubator.