BANGALORE - When 59-year-old Jayalakshmi returned from America to Kochi, in the southern state of Kerala, on March 19, health officials at the airport asked her to quarantine herself at home for 14 days. They also asked her to download an app called MaaS360, which would track her location.. Read more at straitstimes.com.
BANGALORE - When 59-year-old Jayalakshmi returned from America to Kochi, in the southern state of Kerala, on March 19, health officials at the airport asked her to quarantine herself at home for 14 days. They also asked her to download an app called MaaS360, which would track her location.
Both the federal and state governments are increasingly using mobile phone applications, broadly of two kinds: quarantine enforcement and contact tracing. But another senior policeman, who spoke on condition of anonymity , said the app was not fool-proof because it tracked the phone, not the person. Officials have also begun to use technology for contact tracing. Until now, they relied on interviews to identify people who had been in touch with someone infected with Covid-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus.
"It is only when your risk of infection is so high that the government needs to tell you to get tested that the is reconnected to your personal information," said Mr Matthan.
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