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LOCAL Saturday 7 November 2020

Telecommunication company Setar and the Department of Public Health (DVG) introduce:

An innovative solution: the Aruba Health App

ORANJESTAD — Since mid-April, a collaboration between Setar, comes out positive, the person will
Setar; together with DVG (Depart- DVG, the Horacio Oduber hospi- automatically be added to DVG’s
ment of Public Health) and the Aru- tal (HOH), Aruba Tourism Authority quarantine administration system,
ban government, have begun the (A.T.A) and Futura. The app focus- so that they are able to monitor
first part of the ‘DVG Health Check es on the tourists who are visiting and follow close developments of
App’, which was created for the the island. The app was launched the person’s case and health.
registration and management of on the 4th of July and is now avail- Setar together with their partners
people in quarantine. The goal of able on Google and Apple app are working on upcoming devel-
the DVG’s Health Check App is to stores for tourists to download be- opments of the app for the future.
have a better view of the regis- fore they travel to Aruba. The goal of the app is to continue
tered coronavirus cases on the is- The Aruba Health App offers tour- growing, sustaining and manag-
land and to closely follow the de- ists different information regard- ing the health of tourists and locals
velopments of those in quarantine, ing the virus, from the time they on Aruba. Setar; as our national
thus combating the virus on Aruba. arrive and throughout their stay in telecommunication company, is
Aruba. For example, if a tourist did proud to be a part of innovative
The second part of the project, their COVID-19 testing in Aruba, solutions that will help fight and
which commenced in June, is they would receive their results on control the transmission of the co-
called ‘Aruba Health App’ and is the app within 24 hours. If the test rona virus on Aruba.q