Open AccessProposed Design of a Real-Time COVID-19 Pandemic Contact Tracing Using Mobile Phone
Author(s) -
Ezenwa Nwawudu,
Amanze Nkemjika Ikwu,
Ugochi Ikwu,
Nneoma Oparah,
Stanley U. Nnorom
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
european scientific journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1857-7881
pISSN - 1857-7431
DOI - 10.19044/esj.2020.v16n36p1
Subject(s) - contact tracing , mobile phone , tracing , covid-19 , phone , computer science , pandemic , internet privacy , the internet , computer security , transmission (telecommunications) , telecommunications , world wide web , medicine , infectious disease (medical specialty) , linguistics , philosophy , disease , pathology , operating system
As the virus that causes COVID-19 continues to spread from person to persons in communities and rampaging the world, the need for an effective real-time surveillance system becomes paramount. Advance contact tracing and detection of the persons with the virus represents one of the main strategies to prevent transmission. Although COVID-19 surveillance systems such as contact tracing mobile apps have improved the administration and management of virus, there are still challenges such as privacy, cost and ethical issues, the adoption of new technologies, standardized cases, and validly diagnosed case and validity. However, the current mobile apps contact tracing system adopted by different nations has complemented conventional tracing effort in fighting the virus. This proposal is a model for an interactive computer system using mobile phones and the internet for real-time collection and transmission of events related to COVID-19. It will aid the administration and presumptive management of COVID-19 in the world, especially in rural areas. This proposal shows that a sophisticated COVID-19 surveillance system can be build using mobile phones with the right telecommunication technology partner.