| Literature DB >> 33519994 |
Ezenwa Nwawudu1, Amanze Ikwu2, Ugochi Ikwu3, Nneoma Oparah4, Stanley Nnorom5.
Abstract
As the virus that causes COVID-19 continues to spread from person to persons in communities and rampaging the world, the need for an effective real-time surveillance system becomes paramount. Advance contact tracing and detection of the persons with the virus represents one of the main strategies to prevent transmission. Although COVID-19 surveillance systems such as contact tracing mobile apps have improved the administration and management of virus, there are still challenges such as privacy, cost and ethical issues, the adoption of new technologies, standardized cases, and validly diagnosed case and validity. However, the current mobile apps contact tracing system adopted by different nations has complemented conventional tracing effort in fighting the virus. This proposal is a model for an interactive computer system using mobile phones and the internet for real-time collection and transmission of events related to COVID-19. It will aid the administration and presumptive management of COVID-19 in the world, especially in rural areas. This proposal shows that a sophisticated COVID-19 surveillance system can be build using mobile phones with the right telecommunication technology partner.Entities:
Keywords: COVID-19; Contact tracing; Mobile phone; Pandemic; Real-time
Year: 2020 PMID: 33519994 PMCID: PMC7842268 DOI: 10.19044/esj.2020.v16n36p1
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Eur Sci J