Apple and Google are collaborating on technology to monitor the contacts of infected people. Here’s how it works.
South Korea and the United States reported their first cases of Covid-19 on the same day. Yet while most Americans remain under stay-at-home orders, many in South Korea are doing what seems unthinkable in the US returning to their offices. South Korea has oftenbeentouted as rolling out one of the best national responses to the coronavirus, and the countrys approach has been comprehensive. All passengers that arrive at Incheon Airport South Koreas hub for international flights receive mandatory temperature checks and must download the countrys coronavirus app, where they report any changes in their symptoms (or lack thereof) every single day. This app is an important part of South Koreas effort at contact tracing: the effort to find and notify every person who comes in contact with someon...
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