Singapore had been praised globally for its approach in managing the outbreak through stringent contact tracing and quarantine efforts.
A representative of the government said response to the app had been "largely positive."
Medical staff walk to the National Centre for Infectious Diseases building at Tan Tock Seng Hospital in Singapore on January 31, 2020.Less than a week after launching an app to track potential exposure to the coronavirus,The city-state rolled out an app called TraceTogether on March 20 and described it as a supplementary tool for its contact tracing efforts that relied on the recall and memory of infected individuals.
To be clear, Singapore says that when a person is contacted, they are required by law to assist the health ministry in accurately mapping out their movements and interactions to minimize the risk of widespread infection. That includes providing location timelines and physical or digital logs that may be collected by apps.
Still, the logs can be decrypted and analyzed by Singapore's health ministry when it is deemed necessary and the users can be easily identified from that information.
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