Mobile Phone Based Contact Tracing Applications for Combating Covid-19 Pandemic
Mariusz Nowostawski · Biomedical Journal of Scientific & Technical Research · 2020
Covid-19 pandemic has engulfed the whole world by causing more than 47 million infections (as on date 03 November 2020).Since, its outbreak in December 2019 from Wuhan, China, it has drastically affected the world economies and healthcare.Because of the fact that currently there is no medication or vaccine available that be effectively used to treat the Covid-19 corona virus infection, the only way to contain the spread of this infection is to prevent it from spreading.One way to prevent this virus from spreading is to impose lockdowns, but this has drastic effect on economy and every other sector.On the other hand, mobile phone-based contact tracing applications have proved to be an effective method for preventing the spread of this virus.This mini review tries to present a brief and precise information about the various contact tracing applications used to contain the spread of this corona virus.