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Digital Contact tracing in the COVID-19 Pandemic: A tool far from reality

Author(s) -

Ajay Hegde,

N. R. Ramesh Masthi

Publication year - 2020

Publication title -

digital health

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.595

H-Index - 8

ISSN - 2055-2076

DOI - 10.1177/2055207620946193

Subject(s) - contact tracing , pandemic , covid-19 , trace (psycholinguistics) , tracing , cover (algebra) , computer science , engineering , virology , medicine , mechanical engineering , linguistics , philosophy , disease , pathology , outbreak , infectious disease (medical specialty) , operating system

Digital contact tracing applications are being developed by governments across the world, to track and trace contacts. With little evidence, citizens are being forced and made to believe that it is an important step in pandemic control. We discuss briefly if contact tracing will be successful in the control of the Corona virus pandemic or is it just a tool governments are using to cover their helplessness.

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