The race to deploy Covid-19 contact tracing apps


FILE PHOTO A cyclist uses his smartphone at Barceloneta beach amid the coronavirus disease COVID-19 outbreak in Barcelona Spain May 4 2020. REUTERSNacho DoceFile Photo

A cyclist uses his smartphone at Barceloneta beach, amid the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) outbreak, in Barcelona, Spain. Technologists and health officials around the world are racing to develop smartphone apps to trace who has been in contact with carriers of the novel coronavirus. — Reuters

Technologists and health officials around the world are racing to develop smartphone apps to trace who has been in contact with carriers of the novel coronavirus.

Contact-tracing, a disease control tactic that traditionally relies on patients' memories of their movements, identifies people they might have infected so they too can be isolated.

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