How detection ranges and usage stops impact digital contact tracing effectiveness for COVID-19

KD Pandl, S Thiebes, M Schmidt-Kraepelin… - Scientific reports, 2021 - nature.com
To combat the COVID-19 pandemic, many countries around the globe have adopted digital
contact tracing apps. Various technologies exist to trace contacts that are potentially prone to …

Use of a digital contact tracing system in Singapore to mitigate COVID-19 spread

BWK Chow, YD Lim, RCH Poh, A Ko, GH Hong… - BMC Public Health, 2023 - Springer
Background Contact tracing has been essential to reducing spread of COVID-19. Singapore
leveraged technology to assist with contact tracing efforts using a Bluetooth-based app and …

A methodology for evaluating digital contact tracing apps based on the COVID-19 experience

E Hernández-Orallo, P Manzoni, CT Calafate… - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
Controlling the spreading of infectious diseases has been shown crucial in the COVID-19
pandemic. Traditional contact tracing is used to detect newly infected individuals by tracing …

Digital proximity tracing in the COVID-19 pandemic on empirical contact networks

G Cencetti, G Santin, A Longa, E Pigani, A Barrat… - 2020 - researchsquare.com
Digital contact tracing is increasingly considered as a tool to control infectious disease
outbreaks. As part of a broader test, trace, isolate, and quarantine strategy, digital contract …

Quantifying SARS-CoV-2 transmission suggests epidemic control with digital contact tracing

L Ferretti, C Wymant, M Kendall, L Zhao, A Nurtay… - science, 2020 - science.org
INTRODUCTION Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), caused by severe acute
respiratory syndrome–coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), has clear potential for a long-lasting …

Early evidence of effectiveness of digital contact tracing for SARS-CoV-2 in Switzerland

M Salathé, CL Althaus, N Anderegg, D Antonioli… - medRxiv, 2020 - medrxiv.org
In the wake of the pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), contact tracing has
become a key element of strategies to control the spread of severe acute respiratory …

GoCoronaGo: privacy respecting contact tracing for COVID-19 management

Y Simmhan, T Rambha, A Khochare, S Ramesh… - Journal of the Indian …, 2020 - Springer
The COVID-19 pandemic is imposing enormous global challenges in managing the spread
of the virus. A key pillar to mitigation is contact tracing, which complements testing and …

Benefits of mobile contact tracing on COVID-19: tracing capacity perspectives

U Lee, A Kim - Frontiers in Public Health, 2021 - frontiersin.org
For effectively suppressing COVID-19's spread, contact tracing has been widely used to
identify, isolate, and follow-up with those who have come in close contact with an infected …

COVID-19 mitigation by digital contact tracing and contact prevention (app-based social exposure warnings)

GJ Soldano, JA Fraire, JM Finochietto, R Quiroga - Scientific Reports, 2021 - nature.com
A plethora of measures are being combined in the attempt to reduce SARS-CoV-2 spread.
Due to its sustainability, contact tracing is one of the most frequently applied interventions …

Use of temporal contact graphs to understand the evolution of COVID-19 through contact tracing data

M Wu, C Li, Z Shen, S He, L Tang, J Zheng… - Communications …, 2022 - nature.com
Digital contact tracing has been recently advocated by China and many countries as part of
digital prevention measures on COVID-19. Controversies have been raised about their …