Kerala cops to get ‘mobile alerts’.

The Kerala government has given permission to the police to collect the mobile phone location details from service providers to check if people under home quarantine are flouting the rules.If home quarantined people step out from their permissible limits, the cops will be alerted via

SMS and email. A software, COVID-19 quarantine alert system, has been developed for this.The government had asked the local bodies, healthcare workers and even neighbours to keep track of the home quarantined people. However, some people managed to give them the slip

The tower location data of those flouting quarantine rules will be collected from the service providers frequently and they will be tracked with the help of the software.Case will be filed against those who flout the norms.

The tower location data will be collected from the service providers frequently and they will be tracked with the help of the software.

The software was jointly developed by the telecom department and the Centre for Development of Telematics