2021/02/25 by Muhammad Shahroz, Shahroz, Muhammad, Farooq Ahmad +11
Computer Science · Health Professions · Social Sciences · #COVID-19 Digital Contact Tracing #Computers and Society (cs.CY) #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Mobile Health and mHealth Applications #Privacy, Security, and Data Protection #Privacy-Preserving Technologies in Data
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2103.01766
openalex publication_date 2021/02/25 · openalex created_date 2022/07/25 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a severe global pandemic that has\nclaimed millions of lives and continues to overwhelm public health systems in\nmany countries. The spread of COVID-19 pandemic has negatively impacted the\nhuman mobility patterns such as daily transportation-related behavior of the\npublic. There is a requirement to understand the disease spread patterns and\nits routes among neighboring individuals for the timely implementation of\ncorrective measures at the required placement. To increase the effectiveness of\ncontact tracing, countries across the globe are leveraging advancements in\nmobile technology and Internet of Things (IoT) to aid traditional manual\ncontact tracing to track individuals who have come in close contact with\nidentified COVID-19 patients. Even as the first administration of vaccines\nbegins in 2021, the COVID-19 management strategy will continue to be\nmulti-pronged for the foreseeable future with digital contact tracing being a\nvital component of the response along with the use of preventive measures such\nas social distancing and the use of face masks. After some months of deployment\nof digital contact tracing technology, deeper insights into the merits of\nvarious approaches and the usability, privacy, and ethical trade-offs involved\nare emerging. In this paper, we provide a comprehensive analysis of digital\ncontact tracing solutions in terms of their methodologies and technologies in\nthe light of the new data emerging about international experiences of\ndeployments of digital contact tracing technology. We also provide a discussion\non open challenges such as scalability, privacy, adaptability and highlight\npromising directions for future work.\n