Coronavirus crisis highlights the need for governments and tech sector to prepare for the next pandemic

As we confront the first global pandemic of the century, we are learning a critical lesson. Infection control depends on early detection of contagious individuals and warning their contacts they need to get tested themselves and, if positive, to go into quarantine. This approach of testing and contact tracing is currently the only method to stem rising transmission rates before community transmission becomes widespread.The challenge of contact tracing is scalability. First, there must be…

from South China Morning Post https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3087585/coronavirus-crisis-highlights-need-governments-and-tech-sector