Token for the elderly without smartphones


KUALA LUMPUR: A token system to enable those without smartphones to “check-in” at premises is currently being developed by the Science, Technology and Innovation Ministry (Mosti), says Khairy Jamaluddin.

The Health Minister said the system was similar to that in Singapore, a wearable token that was first distributed to vulnerable elderly people who do not own smartphones beginning July last year.

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