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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