AP reports from Nicosia that the government of Cyprus is encouraging the voluntary use of a locally developed cellphone application designed to locate people who may have come into contact with someone carrying the coronavirus.
The country’s Deputy Ministry of Research, Innovation and Digital Policy announced on Saturday that the COVTRACER app, developed in partnership with a government-funded research center, uses GPS information to track an individual’s daily movements.
That information gets stored in the mobile phone’s log file and would be available for users who test positive for the virus to share with public health authorities. The authorities would then utilize the data to trace anyone who who may have been in close proximity to the infected person
The ministry clarified use of the app is “strictly voluntary” and only cellphone owners can make the data available to health authorities.
Read the full report at thenationalherald.com
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