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Response To Meningitis Outbreak In The UK Shows Why Contact Tracing Is Key To Containment
A deadly meningitis outbreak in the UK has triggered rapid contact tracing and preventive treatment. Experts say this public health tool is crucial to contain infections, identify exposed individuals and stop outbreaks before they spread further.
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iPhone 12, iPhone 12 Pro Users May Need to Re-Enable COVID-19 Contact Tracing When Switching: Report
iPhone 12 and iPhone 12 Pro users in the UK reportedly came across an issue that requires its contact tracing feature to be re-enabled to function properly. When switching to a new iPhone from an older model, users can easily set up their previously installed apps from Cloud backups. However, users of National Health Service (NHS) contact tracing a...
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Apple’s COVID-19 App Updated With New Screening Questions, Recommendations to Prevent Coronavirus
Apple launched its own COVID-19 app back in March, right after the coronavirus outbreak was declared a pandemic. Now, the Cupertino-based tech giant has added new improvements to the app in its latest update.
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Privacy Breach, Says Kerala Leader On Call Record Use For Contact Tracing
The use of call detail records (CDR) of a COVID-19 patient for contact tracing is a violation of constitutional rights, Kerala Leader of Opposition Ramesh Chennithala said.
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Aarogya Setu iOS Version Gets Open Sourced Over Two Months After Promise
Aarogya Setu iOS code has been released over two and a half months after NITI Aayog open sourced its Android version. The source code has been provided on the government’s equivalent to GitHub, OpenForge.
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Why It's Hard to Tell If Europe's Virus Tracing Apps Are Useful
Europe's experiment in using technology to fight coronavirus has achieved some early successes: millions of people have downloaded smartphone tracker apps and hundreds have uploaded the results of positive COVID-19 tests.
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Coronavirus Contact Tracing Apps: Europe's Journey So Far
More than 20 countries and territories in Europe have launched or plan smartphone apps that seek to break the chain of coronavirus infection by tracking encounters between people and issuing a warning should one of them test positive.
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Uber Offers COVID-19 Contact Tracing Help Amid Chaotic US Response
Uber Technologies has quietly launched a service to give public health officials quick access to data on drivers and riders presumed to have come into contact with someone infected with COVID-19, company officials told Reuters.
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Aarogya Setu App Now Lets You Delete Your Account, Allow External Apps to Access Your Health Status
Aarogya Setu app has been updated with the option to give permission to external apps to access your health status. It has also added the option to let users permanently delete their account and erase all their data stored by the Aarogya Setu app.
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Have Apple, Google Silently Installed COVID-19 Tracker on Your Phone? Here’s What You Need to Know
Several people are forwarding a message on WhatsApp and social media platforms including Facebook and Twitter claiming that a COVID-19 exposure sensor has been silently “inserted into every phone.” Here’s what’s the truth about the widely spread message.
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Japan's COVID-19 App Reaches 4 Million Downloads in First Week
COVID-19 contact-tracing app has been downloaded more than 4 million times since its launch a week ago as the government seeks to head off a second wave of infections now that businesses and schools have reopened.
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Spain to Trial Coronavirus Tracing App on Canary Island
Spain will try out a new smartphone app aimed at thwarting the spread of the coronavirus by injecting hundreds of false cases into the system in a test run starting on Friday on the Canary Island of Gomera.
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French Coronavirus Tracing App Flops With Only 14 Alerts
France's much-heralded new phone app for tracking coronavirus cases has only alerted 14 people that they were at risk of infection since its launch three weeks ago, the digital affairs minister said Tuesday.
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Canada to Introduce Coronavirus Tracing App in July
Canada is introducing a contact tracing smartphone app that will notify Canadians of exposure to the new coronavirus.
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UK Ditches Homegrown COVID-19 Tracing App to Use Google-Apple Model
Britain will switch to the Apple and Google model for its COVID-19 test-and-trace app, ditching an attempt to develop an app by itself after the homegrown system did not work well enough on Apple's iPhone, the government said on Thursday.
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Response To Meningitis Outbreak In The UK Shows Why Contact Tracing Is Key To Containment
A deadly meningitis outbreak in the UK has triggered rapid contact tracing and preventive treatment. Experts say this public health tool is crucial to contain infections, identify exposed individuals and stop outbreaks before they spread further.
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iPhone 12, iPhone 12 Pro Users May Need to Re-Enable COVID-19 Contact Tracing When Switching: Report
iPhone 12 and iPhone 12 Pro users in the UK reportedly came across an issue that requires its contact tracing feature to be re-enabled to function properly. When switching to a new iPhone from an older model, users can easily set up their previously installed apps from Cloud backups. However, users of National Health Service (NHS) contact tracing a...
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Apple’s COVID-19 App Updated With New Screening Questions, Recommendations to Prevent Coronavirus
Apple launched its own COVID-19 app back in March, right after the coronavirus outbreak was declared a pandemic. Now, the Cupertino-based tech giant has added new improvements to the app in its latest update.
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Privacy Breach, Says Kerala Leader On Call Record Use For Contact Tracing
The use of call detail records (CDR) of a COVID-19 patient for contact tracing is a violation of constitutional rights, Kerala Leader of Opposition Ramesh Chennithala said.
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Aarogya Setu iOS Version Gets Open Sourced Over Two Months After Promise
Aarogya Setu iOS code has been released over two and a half months after NITI Aayog open sourced its Android version. The source code has been provided on the government’s equivalent to GitHub, OpenForge.
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Why It's Hard to Tell If Europe's Virus Tracing Apps Are Useful
Europe's experiment in using technology to fight coronavirus has achieved some early successes: millions of people have downloaded smartphone tracker apps and hundreds have uploaded the results of positive COVID-19 tests.
-
Coronavirus Contact Tracing Apps: Europe's Journey So Far
More than 20 countries and territories in Europe have launched or plan smartphone apps that seek to break the chain of coronavirus infection by tracking encounters between people and issuing a warning should one of them test positive.
-
Uber Offers COVID-19 Contact Tracing Help Amid Chaotic US Response
Uber Technologies has quietly launched a service to give public health officials quick access to data on drivers and riders presumed to have come into contact with someone infected with COVID-19, company officials told Reuters.
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Aarogya Setu App Now Lets You Delete Your Account, Allow External Apps to Access Your Health Status
Aarogya Setu app has been updated with the option to give permission to external apps to access your health status. It has also added the option to let users permanently delete their account and erase all their data stored by the Aarogya Setu app.
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Have Apple, Google Silently Installed COVID-19 Tracker on Your Phone? Here’s What You Need to Know
Several people are forwarding a message on WhatsApp and social media platforms including Facebook and Twitter claiming that a COVID-19 exposure sensor has been silently “inserted into every phone.” Here’s what’s the truth about the widely spread message.
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Japan's COVID-19 App Reaches 4 Million Downloads in First Week
COVID-19 contact-tracing app has been downloaded more than 4 million times since its launch a week ago as the government seeks to head off a second wave of infections now that businesses and schools have reopened.
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Spain to Trial Coronavirus Tracing App on Canary Island
Spain will try out a new smartphone app aimed at thwarting the spread of the coronavirus by injecting hundreds of false cases into the system in a test run starting on Friday on the Canary Island of Gomera.
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French Coronavirus Tracing App Flops With Only 14 Alerts
France's much-heralded new phone app for tracking coronavirus cases has only alerted 14 people that they were at risk of infection since its launch three weeks ago, the digital affairs minister said Tuesday.
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Canada to Introduce Coronavirus Tracing App in July
Canada is introducing a contact tracing smartphone app that will notify Canadians of exposure to the new coronavirus.
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UK Ditches Homegrown COVID-19 Tracing App to Use Google-Apple Model
Britain will switch to the Apple and Google model for its COVID-19 test-and-trace app, ditching an attempt to develop an app by itself after the homegrown system did not work well enough on Apple's iPhone, the government said on Thursday.
