Purpose The COVID-19 pandemic has spread with increased fatalities around the world and
has become an international public health crisis. Public health authorities in many countries …

Background Mobile phone apps have been leveraged to combat the spread of COVID-19.
However, little is known about these technologies' characteristics, technical features, and …

Contact tracing—the process of identifying, isolating, and managing infected persons and
their contacts—is a recognized public health measure for controlling the transmission of …

The global and national response to the COVID-19 pandemic has been inadequate due to a
collective lack of preparation and a shortage of available tools for responding to a large …

We evaluated the usability of mobile COVID-19 contact tracing apps, especially for
individuals with barriers to communication and limited digital literacy skills. We searched the …

The adoption of digital contact-tracing apps to limit the spread of SARS-CoV-2 has been sup-
optimal, but studies that clearly identify factors associated with the app uptake are still …

COVID-19 contact-tracing applications (CTAs) offer enormous potential to mitigate the surge
of positive coronavirus cases, thus helping stakeholders to monitor high-risk areas. The …

Contact tracing is one of the critical tools for fighting against pandemic disease outbreaks,
such as the fast-growing SARS-CoV-2 virus and its different variants. At present, automated …

The digital contact tracing applications are one of the many initiatives to fight the COVID-19
virus. Some of these Apps use the Exposure Notification (EN) system available on Google …

Knowledge management is widely acknowledged as key to achieving competitive
advantages and technological advancement in times of crisis. While a few studies have …