Contact Tracing
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Coronavirus Outbreak: What is contact tracing? How does it help in curbing COVID-19 cases?
•The focus of contact tracing is to find close contacts or people who were within two metres of the infected person for at least 10 minutes or so.
UK ditches homegrown COVID-19 tracing app to use the Google-Apple model
•The test-and-trace programme is key to reopening the country but has been dogged by problems.
Aarogya Setu not ‘open source’ in real sense, claim cybersecurity activists, say server code must be made public
Neeradp •Cybersecurity activists have termed the Indian government's claim of making the source code of Aarogya Setu app public as half-truth.
Aarogya Setu, India’s contact-tracing app, goes open-source
Tushar B •Sustained pressure on authorities about legality and privacy issues bears fruit.
People more worried about economic crisis than health issues from coronavirus, finds study
•The study - conducted by Centre for Marketing in Emerging Economies (CMEE) at IIM Lucknow - revealed that majority (79 percent) of people are worried and surrounded by a feeling of fear (40 percent) and sadness (22 percent).
Canada to ramp up COVID-19 testing and tracing, working closely with Apple, Google on mobile app
•Canada's total cases rose to 81,765 on Friday, and deaths were up less than 2 percent to 6,180.
UK's COVID-19 tracking system under fire amid warning of second wave of Coronavirus outbreak
•PM Boris Johnson said a "world-beating" program for tracing those suspected to be infected by COVID-19, would be in place by 1 June.
Governments should not rely on a vaccine to ease the Coronavirus lockdown, says top HIV researchers
•William Haseltine said to manage the disease through careful tracing of infections and strict isolation measures whenever it starts spreading.
Apple-Google contact tracing tool's initial version released, tech draws interest in 23 countries
•Apple and Google said several US states and 22 countries have sought access to their technology.
Chipmaker Dialog seeks to make Bluetooth coronavirus apps more accurate
•Dialog introduced software to improve the accuracy of wristbands and other Bluetooth-based devices being used for contact tracing.