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Aihik Sur ByExpress News ServiceHYDERABAD: In an effort to streamline Covid-related operations in Telangana, the State’s IT Department is developing an overarching app that aims at monitoring Covid-19 patients and foreign returnees, creating awareness among police officials, among other proposed functions. Firstly, as mentioned above, the app would monitor Covid-19 patients and remind them to take medication on time. FOLLOW LIVE UPDATES ON COVID-19 HEREThirdly, it would help identify foreign returnees and ensure they remain under mandated isolation. IT and Industries Principal Secretary Jayesh Ranjan said that the functions of the proposed app were already being implemented and verified in a small sample. For instance, foreign returnees are being asked by the State government to upload selfies so that the latter can ensure they’re under isolation..