Covid-19: Tech firms deploy Bluetooth chips for coronavirus contact tracing in office

A healthcare worker reaches toward a car to grab a completed coronavirus diagnostic test in Los Angeles, California, US. All US states have eased virus lockdowns, but work-from-home remains the norm in California's tech industry. — Reuters

OAKLAND, California: Technology companies are developing their own contact tracing systems to help prevent coronavirus outbreaks in their offices as countries begin to ease lockdown measures and a return to the workplace is in the offing.

Silicon Valley company Juniper Networks Inc plans to equip its about 10,000 employees with work identification badge holders that have a Bluetooth chip that will help to record a worker's movements and interactions in the office, company vice-president Jeff Aaron said in an interview.