Uzbekistan to develop mobile app to trace contacts of confirmed Covid-19 cases

AKIPRESS.COM - Minister of Health of Uzbekistan Alisher Shadmanov held phone talks with Minister of Health and Welfare of South Korea Park Neung-hoo, reports the Health Ministry's press service.
The agreement was reached on development of the mobile app to trace contacts of people infected with COVID-19. In future it will be possible to trace where the patients were before hospitalization.
The Ministers also agreed to test vaccine against COVID-19.
In April, the company Project Managers with support of the Ministry of Innovative Development developed the mobile app Birga Yengamiz (United We Overcome) to automatize the process of tracing patients' contacts.
Ministry' press secretary Nazokat Abdukunduzova stated that the app is able to identify individuals who contacted infected person during previous 14 days.
Experts from Oxford University note that such apps will be effective only if 60% of population use them.