The NOCOVI has been jointly developed by the Ministry of Health and Ministry of Information and Communications, VNPT Group and other IT enterprises. This application was created for citizens to proactively declare health, provide information related to the COVID-19 epidemic to health authorities. From there, authorities can identify risks of infection, zoning and disease control more effectively.

On March 15, Deputy Minister of Health Nguyen Thanh Long chaired an online conference of "Training IT application in preventing Covid-19". In Quang Nam, the Director of the Health Department chaired.