Cellphone GPS tracking could help stop the spread of coronavirus

Cellphone GPS tracking could help stop the spread of coronavirus

If your first thought on the link between cellphones and coronavirus is to get the disinfectant out, you’d be doing the right thing, but you’d also be missing something very important. Cellphone GPS tracking is a simple way to track and monitor the spread of coronavirus.

It’s not as “out there” as it might seem – in fact, some governments in Asia have already given it a try, often with a great degree of success.

A website built to share research by a team from the University of Oxford proclaims it is possible to stop the epidemic by leveraging both location data and contact data. It is recognized that coronavirus can be stopped from spreading by isolating people, as the virus doesn’t move itself and needs people to move around to propagate it. If you can find out where the infected people are, you can slow or stop the spread of the disease.

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Top 5 Family Locator Apps (updated 2020)

Top 5 Family Locator Apps (updated 2020)

Top Free mobile tracking apps for kids

Whether your eldest is getting ready to travel around the world, or you just want to make sure the kids are making their way home from the playing fields for dinner at the time they said they would be, family mobile tracking apps are the ideal way to keep tabs on your family’s whereabouts.

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