Amaravati: The Medical and Health Department of Andhra Pradesh on Saturday launched "Covid Pharma", a mobile application to keep a track of people purchasing medicines over-the-counter (OTC) for cough, cold and fever from medical stores across the state.
Using the App, the respective pharmacies will have to take down details of persons, including their mobile number, making OTC purchase of medicines for such common ailments and report to the government.
"In the prevailing scenario, this will help us in easily tracing persons with any likely symptoms of coronavirus," Commissioner of Health Katamaneni Baskar said.
Even those buying those medicines with a prescription should be reported.
The medical shops association has consented to collect details of persons making such purchases and share with the health department for better monitoring, he said.