Government Technology Agency (GovTech) staff demonstrate Singapore's new contact-tracing smarthphone app called TraceTogether, as a preventive measure against the COVID-19 in Singapore. Efforts in the US to track the spread of the deadly novel coronavirus, what is known as contact tracing, have become a patchwork based on differing approaches to technology and civil liberties. — AFP
WASHINGTON: Digital or manual? Bluetooth or GPS? Centralised or decentralised?
Efforts in the United States to track the spread of the deadly novel coronavirus – known as contact tracing – have become a patchwork based on differing approaches to technology and civil liberties.
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