Carme Artigas, head of Spain's state digital and artificial intelligence unit, poses holding a mobile phone with the Radar Covid app before an interview with Reuters in Madrid, September 16, 2020. REUTERS/Sergio Perez
MADRID (Reuters) - "What does RadarCOVID not do?" a promotional video for Spain's contact-tracing app asks. The answer: while navigating the country's decentralised healthcare system, it does not locate users, identify them, record personal details, or send data.
Without a vaccine or a cure for the coronavirus, which has killed nearly 1 million people worldwide, countries around the world have unleashed such technology to help break the chain of infections.
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