COVID-19 digital contact tracing applications and techniques: A review post initial deployments
COVID-19 digital contact tracing applications and techniques: A review post initial deployments
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10.1016/j.treng.2021.100072
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2021-05-19
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Qadir J
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Shahroz M;Ahmad F;Younis MS;Ahmad N;Kamel Boulos MN;Vinuesa R;Qadir J
2019年冠状病毒病（COVID-19）是一场严重的全球大流行，已夺去数百万人的生命，并继续使许多国家的公共卫生系统不堪重负。新冠肺炎疫情的蔓延对公众的日常交通相关行为等人类流动模式产生了负面影响。有必要了解疾病在邻近个体之间的传播模式及其途径，以便在所需的安置地点及时实施纠正措施。为了提高接触者追踪的有效性，全球各国正在利用移动技术和物联网（IoT）的进步，协助传统的人工接触者追踪，以追踪与已确诊的COVID-19患者密切接触的个人。即使2021年开始首次接种疫苗，在可预见的未来，COVID-19管理战略仍将是多管齐下的，数字接触者追踪是应对措施的重要组成部分，同时还将采取保持社交距离和使用口罩等预防措施。经过几个月的数字接触追踪技术的部署，对各种方法的优点以及可用性、隐私和道德权衡的更深入的见解正在出现。在本文中，我们根据国际上部署数字接触追踪技术的新数据，从方法和技术方面对数字接触追踪解决方案进行了全面的分析。我们还对可扩展性、隐私性、适应性等开放挑战进行了讨论，并强调了未来工作的有希望的方向。
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a severe global pandemic that has claimed millions of lives and continues to overwhelm public health systems in many countries. The spread of COVID-19 pandemic has negatively impacted the human mobility patterns such as daily transportation-related behavior of the public. There is a requirement to understand the disease spread patterns and its routes among neighboring individuals for the timely implementation of corrective measures at the required placement. To increase the effectiveness of contact tracing, countries across the globe are leveraging advancements in mobile technology and Internet of Things (IoT) to aid traditional manual contact tracing to track individuals who have come in close contact with identified COVID-19 patients. Even as the first administration of vaccines begins in 2021, the COVID-19 management strategy will continue to be multi-pronged for the foreseeable future with digital contact tracing being a vital component of the response along with the use of preventive measures such as social distancing and the use of face masks. After some months of deployment of digital contact tracing technology, deeper insights into the merits of various approaches and the usability, privacy, and ethical trade-offs involved are emerging. In this paper, we provide a comprehensive analysis of digital contact tracing solutions in terms of their methodologies and technologies in the light of the new data emerging about international experiences of deployments of digital contact tracing technology. We also provide a discussion on open challenges such as scalability, privacy, adaptability and highlight promising directions for future work.