BPTJ Has The L-COV Application For People Who Do Activities With Public Transportation

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JAKARTA - The Jabodetabek Transportation Management Agency (BPTJ) of the Ministry of Transportation has launched an application called L-COV (Track COVID-19) which can be used by public transportation users in Jabodetabek. This application is supported by the Task Force for the Acceleration of Handling COVID-19 and also the DKI Jakarta Provincial Government.

Later this application will map which areas are included in the red zone and will be passed by public transportation. It is hoped that the public can take early precautions against the potential spread of the corona virus, either using public transportation or private vehicles.

"Given that the spread of COVID-19 is very dependent on the mobility of the community, it is hoped that if the potential for COVID-19 transmission can be known earlier, the public can be wiser and more careful in deciding to do activities outside the home or prefer to stay at home," he said Head of BPTJ Polana B. Pramesti at the virtual soft launching event of L-COV, Wednesday, June 10.

According to Polana, as long as the vaccine for this disease has not been found, it is better for the community to continue implementing early prevention efforts, especially for those with high mobility.

"Through the Road Monitoring feature, users can find out the potential spread of Covid-19 in real time along the route to be traversed," he said.

Polana explained, one of the advantages of this application is that users can monitor the potential for transmission of COVID-19 by mobile, especially along the road routes that will be traversed. In addition to routes, users of the L-COV application will also receive information about the distribution map of COVID-19 patients, both positive and suspect.

"We are working with the Task Force for the Acceleration of Handling COVID-19 and the Regional Government in finding out data on the number of positive patients, PDP and ODP around the L-COV application users," he continued.

Furthermore, users of the L-COV application can get information regarding the distribution map, the number of patients and cases of COVID-19 in one area through the front page of this application. Including the addition of a QR code feature to scan public transportation facilities.

"With a note that besides active GPS, users are also in areas where data is already available," he added.

For the time being, the L-COV application is only available for Android users, via the Google Play Store. Following the application for Apple users in the Apps Store.

Later, the user will be asked to register identity data, in the form of a phone number, domicile and account password. After entering the verification code sent via SMS, the user will get a number of short questions about his medical history.

"The results of the answers from these users will be processed by the system to detect whether the user is classified as potentially infected by Covid-19 or not," said Polana.