First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has introduced a brand new "proximity tracing app"
First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has introduced a brand new “proximity tracing app” to fight the unfold of Covid-19.
Ms Sturgeon described Shield Scotland as a “important enhancement” to the prevailing take a look at and defend system
And he or she vowed that vital assurances about privateness and confidentiality could be given when it launches later this month.
She added: “I encourage everybody to obtain and use the app as quickly because it turns into out there.”
The announcement comes because the variety of confirmed instances elevated by 154, together with 66 within the NHS Larger Glasgow and Clyde space.
‘Further means’
Ms Sturgeon informed MSPs: “The app will present an extra technique of notifying and giving recommendation if in case you have been uncovered to somebody who has examined constructive, even when you do not know that particular person and they do not know you.”
Contact-tracing apps are designed to assist forestall a second wave of the coronavirus.
They work by logging when two folks have been in shut proximity to one another for a considerable time frame.
If one of many customers is later identified as having the illness, an alert may be despatched to others they’ve just lately been near, telling them that they need to additionally get examined and/or self-isolate.
In June, the UK authorities ditched its coronavirus-tracing app and shifted to a mannequin primarily based on expertise supplied by Apple and Google.