Security, privacy and blockchain applications in COVID-19 detection and social distancing
Dinh C. Nguyen, Quoc‐Viet Pham, Pubudu Nishantha Pathirana, Ming Ding, Aruna Prasad Seneviratne · Institution of Engineering and Technology eBooks · 2022
The coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak has posed serious challenges to healthcare systems around the world. Due to the COVID pandemic, there are a huge number of technologies implemented in our real life to prevent impacts of viruses such as contact tracing, camera surveillance and location detection. However, the use of technologies in the detection and prevention of COVID-19 also poses new problems related to the security and privacy of users. In this context, blockchain has emerged as a potential solution for supporting the prevention of the COVID-19 epidemic by providing security and privacy solutions for facilitating COVID-19 detection and social distancing. Blockchain can help combat the pandemic by offering a number of promising solutions, such as outbreak monitoring, user privacy protection, safe day-to-day operations, medical supply chain and social distancing. This chapter focuses on the applications of blockchain for the COVID-19 pandemic and discusses the key roles of blockchain for COVID-19 detection and social distancing.