세계적 과학저널 사이언스, 코로나 방지 대책으로 한국식 자가격리 앱 주목<br /><br />Swift action and free or affordable mass-testing have been South Korea's most effective weapons in countering the coronavirus. But, it's not just that.<br />When it comes to the novel coronavirus, South Korea has taken tracing and keeping track of those in self-quarantine to a new level using smartphone applications.<br />Our Jang Tae-hyun reports other countries are looking to adopt and adapt.<br />This smartphone application tracks people who are under quarantine.<br />If the person leaves a designated area, the app alerts the civil servant assigned to them.<br />"Previously, one civil servant could only manage one quarantined person at a time, but with this application, each worker can manage between 10 and 30 people."<br />It usually takes around a week to fully track people who have been in contact with the infected and test them for COVID-19, but the use of smartphone apps can speed up this process.<br />Researchers from Oxford University said the application can reduce the average rate of transmission to less than one person per case.<br />Using apps to track the coronavirus is a sensitive privacy issue in Europe, but this is now starting to change.<br />French health minister Olivier Veran has announced that France is working on a smartphone application dubbed 'Stop Covid' to slow the spread of the virus.<br />However, privacy concerns still remain... and it's not clear whether France will centralize the use of that app or not.<br />Jang Tae-hyun, Arirang News<br />
