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Rakning C-19 route tracking is a GPS logger app for Android and iOS, with a user interface and content from the national COVID-19 web page. When infection is confirmed the route data is used to support more traditional contact tracing.
COVID-19 apps, including mobile-software applications on iOS and Android for digital contact-tracing: Aarogya Setu; BlueTrace; careFIJI; Coronavirus Australia; Corona-Warn-App [1] COVID-19 Contact-Confirming Application; COVID Alert (Canada) [2] COVID AlertSA (South Africa) COVIDSafe; COVID Symptom Study; COVID Tracker Ireland; Covid Watch
Digital contact tracing is a method of contact tracing relying on tracking systems, most often based on mobile devices, to determine contact between an infected patient and a user. [2] It came to public prominence in the form of COVID-19 apps during the COVID-19 pandemic .
The DP-3T SDK and calibration apps intend to support the Apple/Google API as soon as it is released to iOS and Android devices. [15] [16] On the 21 April 2020, the Swiss Federal Office of Public Health announced that the Swiss national coronavirus contact tracing app will be based on DP-3T. [17]
On 10 April 2020, Apple and Google, which account for most of the world's mobile operating systems, announced COVID-19 apps for iOS and Android. [47] Relying on Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) wireless radio signals for proximity information, [ 48 ] the new tools would warn people that they had been in contact with who are infected by SARS-CoV-2 .
This leads to issues, particularly on iOS devices where digital contact tracing apps running in the background experience significantly degraded performance. [ 18 ] [ 19 ] [ 20 ] The joint approach is also designed to maintain interoperability between Android and iOS devices, which constitute nearly all of the market.
Software for COVID-19 pandemic mitigation takes many forms. It includes mobile apps for contact tracing and notifications about infection risks, vaccine passports, software for enabling – or improving the effectiveness of – lockdowns and social distancing, Web software for the creation of related information services, and research and development software.
The app was the first main COVID-19 tracking app released in the world and its development encouraged the development of similar apps in other countries. [2] The app has raised significant concerns about the privacy of those who use the app, especially due to a lack of decentralised report processing and access to the data by police.