KATHMANDU: Singapore has said it is making contact tracing app technology freely available to developers worldwide.
The city-state rolled out an app called TraceTogether on March 20 and described it as a supplementary tool for its contact tracing efforts that relied on the recall and memory of infected individuals.
Contact tracing is the process of identifying those with close contact with infected patients.
Phones with the app installed exchange short-distance Bluetooth signals when their users are near one another.
Records of those encounters, including the duration, are stored in their respective phones for 21 days, according to the app’s frequently asked questions section.
(With inputs from Agencies)
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