Digital contact tracing provides an expeditious and comprehensive way to collect and
analyze data on people's proximity, location, movement, and health status. However, this …

Background Simulation study results suggest that COVID-19 contact tracing apps have the
potential to achieve pandemic control. Concordantly, high app adoption rates were a …

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 …

Background: Digital proximity tracing apps have been released to mitigate the transmission
of SARS-CoV-2, the virus known to cause COVID-19. However, it remains unclear how the …

Non-pharmaceutical interventions are crucial to mitigate the COVID-19 pandemic and
contain re-emergence phenomena. Targeted measures such as case isolation and contact …

During pandemic events, strategies such as social distancing can be fundamental to reduce
simultaneous infections and mitigate the disease spreading, which is very relevant to the risk …

Digital contact tracing is a relevant tool to control infectious disease outbreaks, including the
COVID-19 epidemic. Early work evaluating digital contact tracing omitted important features …

Objectives Contact tracing applications are technological solutions that can quickly trace
and notify users of their potential exposure to the Covid-19 virus and help contain the spread …

The first step in SARS-CoV-2 genomic surveillance is testing to identify people who are
infected. However, global testing rates are falling as we emerge from the acute health …

Simultaneously controlling COVID-19 epidemics and limiting economic and societal impacts
presents a difficult challenge, especially with limited public health budgets. Testing, contact …