Current plans for contact-tracing are based around mobile phones, because these have built-in capabilities for location tracking and contact detection. An alternative to mobile phones for contact-tracing would be a… Read more »
Each contact you have with another person potentially infects you with a virus. If the person you have contact with later tests positive for that virus, the contact you had… Read more »
As our team was designing and implementing an open API for COVID-19 contact-tracing, we also created a smartphone app to demonstrate how fully-anonymised automated contact-tracing can be done with a… Read more »
Contact-tracing is one of the most useful tools in the fight to control the spread of a virus. Authorities in China, Singapore and South Korea have successfully deployed contact-tracing as… Read more »