COVID-19 TRACING APPS
Covid-19 Tracing Apps are mobile softwares which can contain the advancement of the new coronavirus quickly. It also makes it possible to track people infected with the virus and a warning is issued if this person is in contact with others while infected. Many applications have been developed with government support in different countries.
A new functionality in some apps will alert you by phone within 24 hours of people who have tested positive for Covid-19 and have been close to you in the past 14 days. Disease monitoring is important for disease control and safe recovery.
A very useful tool is related to symptoms; the user can enter the contacts he had, trips and what he is feeling. From this, the application calculates the probability of contagion. Most applications consist of these tools, which are already extremely important in combating Covid-19.
The apps track people by Bluetooth, which is safer than GPS, because it doesn’t collect your location and other confidential information, and can record when people are having contact with each other.
People who use this type of application can identify who close to them would be infected, thus being able to prevent the virus much more easily, and help to identify the existing disease, therefore avoiding further contamination. With the emergence of this current pandemic, several applications have emerged that can track people who have been infected by the Covid, to make people in quarantine aware of the spread of the virus in their region.
Other benefits are the ease and effectiveness in finding the virus, in addition to helping to detect the most prevalent sites of the virus, which allows people who have to work during these tough times to take safer routes, helping them go to work without major risks, helping them to protect not only themselves, but also their relatives, and others close to them.