Covid-19 symptom tracker app launched

An Island firm has developed a new app where people can track Covid-19 symptoms.

The Health Monitoring Service App has been put together by Health Monitoring Services Ltd. which believes it represents a 'major step forward' in tracking progress of the pandemic.

Users simply answer a series of pre-set, symptom related questions twice a day, once in the morning and once again in the evening. 

Each question is given a value which assess symptom severity - the App will evaluate the responses and produce a Green, Yellow, Amber or Red response.

Within each colour group, the identified symptoms are ranked 1 to ten in order of severity. 

Green is all clear, Yellow is slight shift in symptom based on 1 or 2 ‘yes’ answers whilst an Amber response starts the self-isolation process moving to red indicating that the person needs medical intervention.

At each stage, the App will give the user full guidance on what to do next, based on the government’s latest guidance or instructions.

Health Monitoring Services CEO, Dion Croom, says: "Tracking the development of Covid-19 through the progression of the symptoms will yield invaluable information to governments, employers and healthcare organisations.

"The Health Monitoring Service App removes that stumbling block by giving an up-to-the-minute profile of the deadly virus, its progression, its severity and its geographical spread.

"At the same time, individual users with be able to make informed judgements based on their own personalised profile together with best advice from government."