CAWACH

IN NEWS:

• A Bangalore based startup Acculi Labs has been selected to develop a COVID risk assessment profile called Lyfas COVID score under CAWACH initiative.
• Lyfas is an Android application in which, when one keeps the index finger on the rear phone camera of a mobile phone for 5 minutes, captures the capillary pulse and blood volume change and derive 95 biomarkers with proprietary algorithms and signal processing techniques.
• It uses the power of smartphone processor and smartphone sensors to capture a bunch of body signals.
• Lyfas provides cardio-respiratory, cardio-vascular, hematology, hemorheology, neurology based parameters that are capable of tracking minute pathophysiological changes in the body.
• The new technology will detect the possible infection in an asymptomatic individual to prioritise the conventional testing queue as well as carry out a risk assessment of an asymptomatic individual to become symptomatic

About CAWACH:

• CAWACH stands for Centre for Augmenting WAR with COVID-19 Health Crisis.
• Under this the centre will identify up to 50 innovations and startups that can help in the current covid-19 situation and support them.
• The implementing agency will be Society for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, a business incubator at IIT Bombay
• It was set up  by Department of Science and Technology, under Ministry of science and Technology Government of India.

PRELIMS QUESTION

”CAWACH” an initiative to help combat covid-19 pandemic has been launched by:
(a)Ministry of Home affairs
(b)Ministry of Health and Family affairs
(c)Ministry of Science and Technology
(d) Ministry of Women and Child development

Answer to prelims question