Contact Tracing

MPA Singapore Tightens Covid-19 Testing Rules After Recent Cases

According to Singapore Ministry of Health (MOH) a marine surveyor and a harbour pilot had tested positive for COVID-19 infection on 30 and 31 December 2020 respectively, reports SeaNews.

COVID-19 safe management Shore 

Recent COVID-19 infection 

The Ministry of Health (MOH) had earlier reported that a marine surveyor and a harbour pilot had tested positive for COVID-19 infection on 30 and 31 December 2020 respectively. 

Contact tracing 

Contact tracing is underway to prevent the clusters from...

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‘Mobile App’ for Better Contact Tracing of COVID Patients

  • IUCAA mobile app to help detect comorbid COVID-19 patients faster.
  • The app,Vayashree Lite, allows instant alerts in case of any issues on parameters entered pertaining to comorbid patients.
  • The app allows faster collection of vital data such as temperature and oxygen levels on surveyors’ android phones.

A cellphone app developed by the Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics would be used in the city from Tuesday for early detection of comorbid COVID-19 patients and quick...

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WHO Sends Team To Check COVID19 Origin, Says Contact Tracing the Only Way

According to a Reuters report, the World Health Organization chief said on Monday that  Tracing contacts of people with coronavirus infections is the most important step in fighting the COVID-19 pandemic, and countries that are failing to do so have no excuse.

Pandemic Speeding Up

“Although many countries have made some progress, globally the pandemic is actually speeding up,” Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told a briefing.

“We all want this to be over. We all want to get on with our lives. But the...

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Big COVID-19 Cluster Emerges in Cargo Ship

  • South Korea says it’s testing 176 workers at the southern port of Busan following a coronavirus outbreak among crew members of a Russian cargo ship that has so far sickened 16.
  • All 21 crew members were tested after the ship arrived at Busan’s Gamcheon Port on Sunday carrying frozen seafood.
  • South Korea reported 46 new cases of COVID-19 on Tuesday, including 30 linked to international arrivals.

Russian cargo ship in Busan emerges as coronavirus cluster, reports Kim Arin for the Korean Herald.

Cor...

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WHO Launching Unique COVID19 Contact Tracing App!

  • WHO launching a virtual handshake contact tracing app by this month
  • World’s top engineers including that of Google and Alphabet are working for it.
  • Apart from contact tracing, there will be a self-help guide to check your mental health
  • There will be a separate integrated app to inform and cater to the healthcare workers’ need.

In a major development, the World Health Organization (WHO) has announced that they are planning to launch an app this month to enable people in under-resourced...

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[Watch] Corona Alert! Apps To Trace Contacts While Preserving Privacy!

  • New apps from the likes of MIT, Google, and Apple rely on Bluetooth to automate the contact-tracing process, which health care professionals use to notify people who may have come into contact with a COVID-19 patient.
  • The idea is to proactively trace individuals’ movements so that if the person does eventually test positive, there’s a definitive way to track their previous whereabouts–and who else was nearby at the time.
  • While sound in theory, these apps will only work if a broad swath of the...

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A Non-App Based COVID19 Contact Tracing from Google & Apple!

Apple Google app
A woman wearing a facemask as a preventive measure against the COVID-19 novel coronavirus prepares to pay ‘touchless’ with her mobile phone for vegetables at a market in Beijing on March 23, 2020. (Photo by Greg Baker / AFP) (Photo by GREG BAKER/AFP via Getty Images)
  • A new phone-based technology to detect COVID19 contacts is being developed by Apple-Google in partnership.
  • A third of world’s population can be monitored by this without disclosing their private information.
  • The contact tracing...

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