Shut down and reboot—preparing to minimise infection in a post-COVID-19 era
Becky McCall · The Lancet Digital Health · 2020
Earlier this month, the European Commission gave its support to exit strategies using mobile phone data, recommending a pan-European approach for the adoption of contact-tracing mobile apps using anonymised and aggregated mobile location data. The endorsement is timely with a number of European countries, for example Italy and Germany, taking tentative steps towards lifting COVID-19 lockdowns.