{"id":33976,"date":"2020-03-23T08:33:11","date_gmt":"2020-03-23T08:33:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/its-time-to-track-peoples-smartphones-to-ensure-they-self-isolate-during-this-global-pandemic-says-who-boffin\/"},"modified":"2020-03-23T08:33:11","modified_gmt":"2020-03-23T08:33:11","slug":"its-time-to-track-peoples-smartphones-to-ensure-they-self-isolate-during-this-global-pandemic-says-who-boffin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/its-time-to-track-peoples-smartphones-to-ensure-they-self-isolate-during-this-global-pandemic-says-who-boffin\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s time to track people&#8217;s smartphones to ensure they self-isolate during this global pandemic, says WHO boffin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tracking and limiting the movements of overseas travelers, and others suspected to be COVID-19 coronavirus carriers, has proved an essential tool in controlling the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s according to Professor Marylouise McLaws, a technical adviser to the World Health Organization&#8217;s Infection Prevention and Control Global Unit.<\/p>\n<p>McLaws \u2013 a professor at the University of New South Wales&#8217; School of Public Health and Community Medicine in Australia, and a member of European, US and UK epidemiology and infection control bodies \u2013 told <em>The Register<\/em> tracking played a key role in nations that were able to <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/week-asia\/health-environment\/article\/3076268\/aggressive-tracing-lessons-sars-how-singapore\">flatten the exponential curve<\/a> of COVID-19 cases \u2013 particularly Singapore, Taiwan and South Korea.<\/p>\n<p>Singapore, an air travel hub in the Asia-Pacific region, has 455 confirmed COVID-19 cases and two deaths as of the weekend. Taiwan has just 195, and also two deaths.<\/p>\n<p>Professor McLaws said that, in Singapore, those who may have been exposed to the novel coronavirus \u2013 particularly those returning from overseas \u2013 were subject to &#8220;stay-home notices&#8221; that required them to self-isolate for 14 days. Confirmed patients were hospitalized, we note.<\/p>\n<div class=\"promo_article\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/regmedia.co.uk\/2020\/03\/19\/shutterstock_fight.jpg?x=174&amp;y=115&amp;crop=1\" width=\"174\" height=\"115\" alt=\"fight\"><\/p>\n<h2 title=\"Tips from El Reg hack with two decades of WFH experience\">Tech won&#8217;t save you from lockdown disaster: How to manage family and free time while working from home<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2020\/03\/21\/home_working_register_guide\/\"><span>READ MORE<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<p>To enforce the stay-at-home notices, officials told people to enable location services on their smartphones and periodically click on a link sent by SMS. That link reported their location, confirming they were in fact staying at home. Messages must be responded to in a short period of time to prevent people cheating by leaving their phones behind while they ventured outside.<\/p>\n<p>Visits were also made to confirm the location of those under lockdown orders.<\/p>\n<p>McLaws is happy with this approach because the data she&#8217;s seen suggests the majority of COVID-19 cases can be traced to international travelers, or those who have come into contact with international travelers. Ensuring those people stay away from the general population for two weeks would stem the further spread of the virus.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I like technology, and I am surprised that we are not using it on the group who are at highest risk \u2013 international travelers \u2013 and who are not being checked that they are actually self-isolating,&#8221; she told us today.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is all very well and good to say self-isolate, now is the time to say it must be done. 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Electronic monitoring is much kinder.&#8221; \u00ae<\/p>\n<p class=\"wptl btm\"><span>Sponsored:<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/go.theregister.co.uk\/tl\/1915\/-8374\/unlock-the-value-of-sd-wan?td=wptl1915\">Webcast: Why you need managed detection and response<\/a><\/p>\n<p>READ MORE <a href=\"https:\/\/go.theregister.co.uk\/feed\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2020\/03\/23\/track_phones_coronavirus_who\/\">HERE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Overseas travelers and others need to stay home \u2013 and we should use their phones to monitor them, we&#8217;re told Tracking and limiting the movements of overseas travelers, and others suspected to be COVID-19 coronavirus carriers, has proved an essential tool in controlling the pandemic.\u2026 READ MORE 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