Demystifying COVID‐19 digital contact tracing: A survey on frameworks and mobile apps

T Martin, G Karopoulos… - Wireless …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The coronavirus pandemic is a new reality, and it severely affects the modus vivendi of the
international community. In this context, governments are rushing to devise or embrace …

Artificial intelligence and internet of things (AI-IoT) technologies in response to COVID-19 pandemic: A systematic review

JI Khan, J Khan, F Ali, F Ullah, J Bacha, S Lee - Ieee Access, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The origin of the COVID-19 pandemic has given overture to redirection, as well as
innovation to many digital technologies. Even after the progression of vaccination efforts …

The epidemiological impact of the NHS COVID-19 app

C Wymant, L Ferretti, D Tsallis, M Charalambides… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
The COVID-19 pandemic has seen the emergence of digital contact tracing to help to
prevent the spread of the disease. A mobile phone app records proximity events between …

A population-based controlled experiment assessing the epidemiological impact of digital contact tracing

P Rodríguez, S Graña, EE Alvarez-León… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
While Digital contact tracing (DCT) has been argued to be a valuable complement to manual
tracing in the containment of COVID-19, no empirical evidence of its effectiveness is …

Pact: Privacy sensitive protocols and mechanisms for mobile contact tracing

J Chan, D Foster, S Gollakota, E Horvitz… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2020 - arxiv.org
The global health threat from COVID-19 has been controlled in a number of instances by
large-scale testing and contact tracing efforts. We created this document to suggest three …

Effect of manual and digital contact tracing on covid-19 outbreaks: A study on empirical contact data

A Barrat, C Cattuto, M Kivelä… - Journal of the …, 2021 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Non-pharmaceutical interventions are crucial to mitigate the COVID-19 pandemic and
contain re-emergence phenomena. Targeted measures such as case isolation and contact …

Digital contact-tracing during the Covid-19 pandemic: an analysis of newspaper coverage in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland

J Amann, J Sleigh, E Vayena - Plos one, 2021 - journals.plos.org
Governments around the globe have started to develop and deploy digital contact tracing
apps to gain control over the spread of the novel coronavirus (Covid-19). The …

[HTML][HTML] Blockchain-based digital contact tracing apps for COVID-19 pandemic management: Issues, challenges, solutions, and future directions

SM Idrees, M Nowostawski… - JMIR medical …, 2021 - medinform.jmir.org
The COVID-19 pandemic has caused substantial global disturbance by affecting more than
42 million people (as of the end of October 2020). Since there is no medication or vaccine …

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 …

The effectiveness of backward contact tracing in networks

S Kojaku, L Hébert-Dufresne, E Mones, S Lehmann… - Nature physics, 2021 - nature.com
Effective control of an epidemic relies on the rapid discovery and isolation of infected
individuals. Because many infectious diseases spread through interaction, contact tracing is …