Contact tracing

[BERLIN] Europe should not cede its sovereignty to Silicon Valley when it comes to using technology to help trace those at risk of coronavirus infection, the German developers of a smartphone app said...

Officials searching for thousands who may have been infected in a cluster of cases linked to nightclubs and bars in Seoul as worries about second infection wave mount

COLOMBIA has removed the contact-tracing feature in its official app for informing residents about the novel coronavirus after experiencing glitches, but aims to rebuild using potentially more reliabl...

[BENGALURU] Apple Inc and Alphabet Inc's Google on Monday said they would ban the use of location tracking in apps that use a new contact tracing system the two are building to help slow the spread of...

[NEW YORK] Billionaire Michael Bloomberg will help build an "army" of coronavirus tracers to help New York - America's Covid-19 epicentre - get up and running again, Governor Andrew Cuomo announced We...

[WASHINGTON] Taiwan and South Korea have led the world in digital contact tracing for the Covid-19 pandemic - an example the US with its emphasis on personal privacy and decentralised system of govern...