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Friday, August 15, 2025
TopicContact tracing

Topic: Contact tracing

Australia is having hard time convincing citizens to download its Covid tracing app

Australia's COVIDSafe app is facing flak for technical bugs, privacy concerns, shifting messages from government officials and an overall skeptical public.

Travel will come back after Covid. It will become ‘touchless’

To make travel safer after Covid crisis, companies will use digital tools for identification instead of physical fingerprints and hand scanners.

Where to worry about catching Covid-19, and where not to

Dining together and taking public transport might risk spreading the disease, but going to a market briefly or a transient encounter while you walk, those are low risks.

Aarogya Setu scores 2 out of 5 points in MIT review for Covid tracing apps

The Aarogya Setu scored points for gathering useful data, but lost out on parametres of transparency and voluntary download.

I downloaded Aarogya Setu app — the twist in season finale of Black Mirror lockdown

Israel, Singapore, Italy and others have left the choice of using the contract tracing app for Covid upon users. But Modi govt is creating an Aadhaar-like moment.

How the world is embracing contact-tracing technology to fight coronavirus

Governments want to get people back to work & a key part of this is contact-tracing technology that helps authorities track the virus and warn citizens.

Apple, Google to boost privacy protections for Covid-19 contact-tracing tool

The companies said the system’s tracking keys will be generated in more random ways and Bluetooth data will now be encrypted.

Tamil Nadu is containing Covid-19 well, and it is not following Bhilwara model

Tamil Nadu Health Secretary Beela Rajesh says aggressive contact-tracing, quarantining over a lakh people and the lockdown worked in their favour.

Why reopening the economy after pandemic will be more about ethics than science

The choice of when to reopen is not a scientific question, but a moral one informed by science: how much coronavirus risk are we willing to accept?

More than ventilators, India needs thousands of coronavirus contact-tracers

Contact tracing can be important to prevent transmission, in both containment and mitigation phases of pandemic response.

On Camera

Nobel committee, note how Trump allowed Munir to make nuclear threat against India from US soil

So far, India has responded to his threats with a measured, diplomatic, strategic, and multi-dimensional approach. Now, it needs to react firmly.

Modi’s ‘Diwali bonanza’ for the common man—next-gen GST reforms, lower tax on daily-use items soon

Finance ministry says the proposed revamp will focus on structural reforms, rate rationalisation & ease of living, & will be deliberated upon in the coming weeks.

Yudh Seva Medal for Major General SS Sharda, who led Indian Army’s info war during Op Sindoor

Independence Day honours for ADG Strat Comm team behind Op Sindoor’s strategic messaging, including the logo designer, for real-time narrative control & countering misinfo.

Modi’s ready to risk it all for farmers. Farm reform can answer Trump with new Green Revolution

Standing up to America is usually not a personal risk for a leader in India. Any suggestions of foreign pressure unites India behind who they see as leading them in that fight.