Submission + - Singapore launches contact tracing mobile app to track coronavirus infections. (straitstimes.com)
wiplash writes: A contact-tracing smartphone app has been launched to allow the local authorities to quickly track people who have been exposed to confirmed coronavirus cases.
Dubbed TraceTogether, the app can identify people who have been within 2m of coronavirus patients for at least 30 minutes, using wireless Bluetooth technology.
"This is especially useful in cases where the infected persons do not know everyone whom they had been in close proximity with for an extended duration," the app's developers, the Government Technology Agency (GovTech) and the Ministry of Health (MOH), said on its website launched yesterday.
While use of the app is not compulsory, those who use it have to turn on the Bluetooth settings in their phones for tracing to be done.
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Dubbed TraceTogether, the app can identify people who have been within 2m of coronavirus patients for at least 30 minutes, using wireless Bluetooth technology.
"This is especially useful in cases where the infected persons do not know everyone whom they had been in close proximity with for an extended duration," the app's developers, the Government Technology Agency (GovTech) and the Ministry of Health (MOH), said on its website launched yesterday.
While use of the app is not compulsory, those who use it have to turn on the Bluetooth settings in their phones for tracing to be done.
https://www.straitstimes.com/t...
