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+ | | 2020 || June 5 || || "The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has revealed that it has developed a Covid-19 contact-tracing application that will be deployed in all its locations across the country”<ref name="lppnopsco">{{cite web |title=NNPC Develops Covid-19 Contact Tracing App |url=https://www.rigzone.com/news/nnpc_develops_covid19_contact_tracing_app-05-jun-2020-162308-article/ |website=www.rigzone.com |access-date=20 January 2021 |language=en}}</ref> || | ||
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| 2020 || June 9 || || ProteGO Safe<ref>{{cite web |title=Poland Rolls Out Privacy-Secure Coronavirus Tracking App |url=https://www.usnews.com/news/technology/articles/2020-06-09/poland-rolls-out-privacy-secure-coronavirus-tracking-app |website=usnews.com |access-date=6 December 2020}}</ref> || {{w|Poland}} | | 2020 || June 9 || || ProteGO Safe<ref>{{cite web |title=Poland Rolls Out Privacy-Secure Coronavirus Tracking App |url=https://www.usnews.com/news/technology/articles/2020-06-09/poland-rolls-out-privacy-secure-coronavirus-tracking-app |website=usnews.com |access-date=6 December 2020}}</ref> || {{w|Poland}} |
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2020 | February 11 | "China launches coronavirus 'close contact detector' app”[1] | ||
2020 | February | PathCheck "Founded at MIT in the research group of Prof. Ramesh Raskar, PathCheck Foundation is 501(c)3 charitable organization dedicated to creating healthy and resilient communities by containing the pandemic, revitalizing the economy, and preserving the privacy of individual citizens. " "PathCheck was founded in February, 2020, at MIT by a passionate community of people and organizations to contain the spread of COVID-19 and help revitalize economies without sacrificing personal privacy. We’ve been pioneers in digital contact tracing and exposure notification technology. Their original technology was based on the MIT Private Kit"[2][3] | ||
2020 | March 11 | Background | "The World Health Organization (WHO) to declare a pandemic on March 11, 2020"[4] | |
2020 | March 12 | Public Health England stops performing contact tracing, as widespread infections overwhelm capacity.[5][6] | England | |
2020 | March 20 | "Singapore launches contact tracing mobile app to track coronavirus infections" "E: A new mobile application called TraceTogether was launched on Friday (Mar 20) to support ongoing contact tracing efforts amid the COVID-19 outbreak in Singapore."[7][8] | Singapore | |
2020 | March 25 | Stopp Corona App[4] | Austria | |
2020 | April 1 | Pan-European Privacy-Preserving Proximity Tracing[9] | ||
2020 | April 2 | Aarogya Setu[10] | India | |
2020 | April 4 | Decentralized Privacy-Preserving Proximity Tracing[11] | ||
2020 | April 14 | digital contact tracing | COVIDSafe[12] | Australia |
2020 | April 16 | Whisper Tracing Protocol[13] | ||
2020 | April 16 | "The team behind Nodle.io, an Internet of Things (IoT) connectivity and security startup, today announces the launch of Coalition, a free, privacy-first contact tracing app to help stop the spread of COVID-19. "[14] | ||
2020 | May 14 | "India launches contact-tracing app for JioPhones in virus battle”[15] | ||
2020 | May 20 | NZ COVID Tracer[16] | ||
2020 | May 20 | Exposure Notification[17] | ||
2020 | May 28 | NHS Test and Trace[18] | England | |
2020 | May 29 | Apturi Covid[19] | Latvia | |
2020 | May | "In May 2020, Serco accidentally shared the personal email addresses of nearly 300 trainee COVID-19 contact tracers."[20] | ||
2020 | June 1 | Immuni[21] | Italy | |
2020 | June 5 | "The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has revealed that it has developed a Covid-19 contact-tracing application that will be deployed in all its locations across the country”[22] | ||
2020 | June 9 | ProteGO Safe[23] | Poland | |
2020 | June 9 | "Pakistan's Covid-19 App Becomes Laughing Stock as it Fails at Contact Tracing, Privacy”[24] | ||
2020 | June 10 | "French hacker claims Pakistan's covid-19 contact tracing app reveals patients' locations, govt denies claims”[25] | ||
2020 | June 15 | Coronavirus UY[26] | Uruguay | |
2020 | June 16 | digital contact tracing | Corona-Warn-App[27] “ Germany launches 'best' coronavirus tracing app”[28] | Germany |
2020 | June 18 | Smittestop[29] | Denmark | |
2020 | June 18 | BEAT Covid Gibraltar.[30] | Gibraltar | |
2020 | June 19 | COCOA[31] | Japan | |
2020 | June 21 | careFIJI[32] | Fiji | |
2020 | June 25 | SwissCovid[33] | Switzerland | |
2020 | June 30 | Healthy Together[34] | ||
2020 | June 30 | Radar COVID[35] | Spain | |
2020 | July 7 | COVID Tracker Ireland[36] | Ireland | |
2020 | July 30 | StopCOVID NI[37] | Northern Ireland | |
2020 | July 31 | COVID Alert[38] | Canada | |
2020 | July 31 | Coronavírus-SUS | Brazil | |
2020 | August 5 | COVIDWise[39] | Virginia | |
2020 | August 5 | "Brazil integrates Apple-Google exposure notification tech into coronavirus app”[40] | ||
2020 | August 13 | Care19 Alert[41] | North Dakota | |
2020 | August 14 | Care19 Alert[42] | Wyoming | |
2020 | August 17 | GuideSafe[43] | Alabama | |
2020 | August 19 | Covid Watch[44] | Arizona | |
2020 | August 20 | Hoia[45] | Estonia | |
2020 | August 31 | Koronavilkku "The Koronavilkku smartphone app has now been published to help break infection chains. You can now download Koronavilkku to your phone free of charge from the most popular app stores." "“The Koronavilkku mobile app is part of the Government's test, trace, isolate and treat strategy. The app makes it more efficient to reach people exposed to the virus and refer them to treatment. This way, infection chains can also be broken more efficiently”, says Kirsi Varhila, Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Social Affairs and Health." [46][47] | Finland | |
2020 | September 1 | COVID Alert SA "Now you can, by downloading and using the COVID Alert SA app, the South African government’s official Bluetooth contact-tracing app. It’s built on the Apple–Google Exposure Notifications application programmable interface (API). User privacy and security are at the core of the design. Anyone in South Africa who has a Bluetooth-enabled smartphone can access this app."[48][49] | South Africa | |
2020 | September 1 | STAYAWAY COVID[50] | Portugal | |
2020 | September 10 | Guam Covid Alert "Guam is the first U.S. Territory to launch an exposure notification app developed by engineers with Apple, Google, and the PathCheck Foundation that uses Bluetooth technology for digital contact tracing." [51][52] | Guam | |
2020 | September 11 | Protect Scotland "It became available to download free on to a smart phone from Apple's App Store or Google Play on Thursday. The Protect Scotland app lets people know if they have been in close contact with someone who later tests positive. The Scottish government has said the software will support the Test and Protect system and is "another tool in the fight against Covid-19"."[53] | Scotland | |
2020 | September 15 | COVID Alert DE "Gov. John Carney, the Delaware Department of Health and Social Services, and the Delaware Department of Technology and Information on Sept. 15 launched COVID Alert DE – a mobile app available in the App Store or Google Play that will help Delaware fight community spread of COVID-19. "[54][55] | United States (Delaware) | |
2020 | September 17 | eRouška (eMask) [56][57] | Czech Republic | |
2020 | September 22 | SlowCOVIDNC [58][59] | North Carolina | |
2020 | September 24 | NHS COVID-19 "NHS coronavirus app to launch in England and Wales on 24 September"[60] | ||
2020 | September 24 | COVID Alert PA [61] | Pennsylvania | |
2020 | September 30 | Coronalert[62] | Belgium | |
2020 | October 1 | "Governor Phil Murphy and New York Governor Andrew M. Cuomo today announced the launch of COVID-19 exposure notification mobile apps in their respective states that will serve as crucial tools to supplement the effort to trace and contact individuals subject to a COVID exposure. The apps, COVID Alert NJ and COVID Alert NY, notify users of potential COVID-19 exposure while maintaining user privacy and security. With today’s launch, New Jersey and New York join Pennsylvania and Delaware in creating a regional COVID Alert app network that operates across state lines to stop the spread of COVID-19. Connecticut has also announced it will launch an app in the near future using the same technology."[63] | ||
2020 | October 10 | CoronaMelder[64] | Netherlands | |
2020 | October 14 | Jersey COVID Alert[65] | Jersey | |
2020 | October 25 | CO Exposure Notifications[66] | Colorado | |
2020 | November 9 | MI COVID Alert " Michigan launched the statewide rollout of a voluntary, free coronavirus app Monday, Nov. 9, 2020. The app notifies users if they have potentially been in close contact with infected people."[67] | Michigan | |
2020 | November 10 | "The Maryland Department of Health (MDH) today announced the launch of MD COVID Alert, the official COVID-19 Exposure Notifications Express system of Maryland. MD COVID Alert uses Bluetooth Low Energy technology to quickly notify users who might have been exposed to someone who tested positive for COVID-19 with the goal of reducing infections in Maryland."[68] | ||
2020 | November 11 | Aloha Safe Alert | Hawaii | |
2020 | November 12 | COVID Alert CT | Connecticut | |
2020 | November 23 | Gosuslugi | Russia | |
2020 | November 23 | COVIDaware | Minnesota | |
2020 | November 30 | WA Notify | Washington (state) | |
2020 | December 21 | Smittestopp | Norway |
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- ↑ "China launches coronavirus 'close contact detector' app". BBC News. 11 February 2020. Retrieved 19 January 2021.
- ↑ "PATHCHECK FOUNDATION". okosvaros.lechnerkozpont.hu. Retrieved 16 January 2021.
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- ↑ 4.0 4.1 "Digital contact-tracing during the Covid-19 pandemic: an analysis of newspaper coverage in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland" (PDF). medrxiv.org. Retrieved 6 December 2020.
- ↑ Tapper, James (6 December 2020). "Recruit volunteer army to trace Covid-19 contacts now, urge top scientists". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 18 April 2020.
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- ↑ "NNPC Develops Covid-19 Contact Tracing App". www.rigzone.com. Retrieved 20 January 2021.
- ↑ "Poland Rolls Out Privacy-Secure Coronavirus Tracking App". usnews.com. Retrieved 6 December 2020.
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