Performance of digital contact tracing tools for COVID-19 response in Singapore : cross-sectional study

• Main Authors: Huang, Zhilian, Guo, Huiling, Lee, Yee-Mun, Ho, Eu Chin, Ang, Hou, Chow, Angela
• Other Authors: Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine (LKCMedicine)
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2020
• Subjects: Science::Medicine; Infectious Disease; Real-time Locating Systems
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/145551
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Background: Effective contact tracing is labor intensive and time sensitive during the COVID-19 pandemic, but also essential in the absence of effective treatment and vaccines. Singapore launched the first Bluetooth-based contact tracing app—TraceTogether—in March 2020 to augment Singapore’s contact...