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The NHS COVID-19 contact tracing app for England and Wales was released on 24 September 2020. The NHS app uses Google/Apple exposure notification technology. (The NHS previously tried a centralised system rather than a decentralised approach). Scotland and Northern Ireland contact tracing apps were launched in the weeks prior to England & Wales.
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 .
Aug.13 -- Andrew Frame, chief executive officer of the crime-tracking app Citizen, discusses the new Covid-19 testing and contact-tracing features in the app. He speaks with Emily Chang on ...
Contact tracing efforts miss vulnerable and under resourced populations. [55] Manual tracing efforts face difficulty tracking hard to reach individuals given social complexities. [55] Digital tools require a smart phone and a reliable internet connection, two factors that might exclude certain individuals from benefiting from the technology. [55]
COVIDSafe [14] [15] was a digital contact tracing app released by the Australian Government on 26 April 2020 [16] [17] to help combat the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. [18] The app was intended to augment traditional contact tracing by automatically tracking encounters between users and later allowing a state or territory health authority to warn a user they have come within 1.5 metres (4 ft 11 ...
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.
NZ COVID Tracer is a mobile software application that enables a person to record places they have visited, in order to facilitate tracing who may have been in contact with a person infected with the COVID-19 virus. The app allows users to scan official QR codes at the premises of businesses and other organisations they visit, to create a ...