Beijing has repeatedly impeded the beginning of the World Health Organization’s inquiry into the virus’s emergence, worried about drawing attention to its early mistakes. More than a year after a new coronavirus first emerged in China, a team of experts from the World Health Organization finally arrived on Thursday in …
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Earlier on Monday (Jan 4), the government revealed that TraceTogether data may be used to aid criminal investigations, causing an uproar among Singapore citizens. According to the law, the police can obtain any data under Singapore’s jurisdiction for the purposes of criminal investigations, and this includes TraceTogether data. In response, …
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Several state governments may soon send residents an alert asking them to turn on “exposure notifications.” On Tuesday, Apple and Google said they would make it easier for states to use their new technology that detects phones that come close to one another and can notify people who may have …
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This briefing has now ended. Read live coronavirus updates here. Here’s what you need to know: The White House pushes to eliminate billions from a relief proposal drafted by Senate Republicans. The F.D.A. signs off on pooled testing, which significantly expands diagnostic capacity. A study in South Korea finds that …
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Following the Covid-19 outbreak, Singapore and other countries such as Japan, China, South Korea and India have developed their own versions of the contact tracing app, aimed at mitigating the spread of Covid-19. Fundamentally, contact tracing works by tracking down the individuals an infected person has been in contact with …
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Governments and populations around the world are looking for strategies to ease pandemic lockdown restrictions. Improving how we respond once an infected person is diagnosed can help keep the curve flat while also enabling healthy and recovered people to go out and interact in public again. The main approach governments are …
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The Smart Nation and Digital Government Group (SNDGG) is exploring a wearable device that may become Singapore’s new method for contact tracing. Dr Vivian Balakrishnan, the Minister-in-charge of the SNDGG and Minister for Foreign Affairs, announced this in Parliament on 5 June. While no other information has been revealed about …
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The promise of contact-tracing apps is that — anonymously and with high privacy and security — they’ll track everyone we’ve been in contact with and alert us if we’ve been close to someone who’s tested positive for COVID-19. But as these apps begin to emerge, some weaknesses are becoming apparent. …
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Author’s Blurb: I haven’t gone to restaurants, malls or grocery stores since the start of the MCO, so I have yet to partake in contact tracing. Several solutions have been implemented all over as per government regulations, but as time passes, issues are cropping up. As innovative as the idea …
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