Month: April 2020

AUTOMATED COVID-19 CONTACT TRACING USING MOBILE APPLICATION This automated mobile phone app would record the owner’s contact with other app users. If an app user is diagnosed with the virus, their recent contacts would receive messages advising them to isolate. It’s a strategy with obvious negative implications for people’s privacy, This application is nonetheless worth … Read more

DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF CORONAVIRUS DIGITAL CONTACT TRACING Abstract The newly emergent human virus SARS-CoV-2 is resulting in high fatality rates and incapacitated health systems. Preventing further transmission is a priority. We analyzed key parameters of epidemic spread to estimate the contribution of different transmission routes and determine requirements for case isolation and contact-tracing needed … Read more