One of China's major tech hubs is planning to make a health and movement tracking system developed to fight the COVID-19 epidemic a permanent fixture in daily life.
Officials in the city of Hangzhou, home to Alibaba and other Chinese tech concernts, said on Friday (Chinese language) the local government wishes to create creating a permanent version the country's tracing app that was designed to help lift the country out of lockdown. The proposed system would be a "'firewall' to enhance people's health and immunity" after the pandemic, the city's health commission said.
The app, which is mandatory, gives users green, yellow, or red status based on their travel history and whether they have been in contact with known cases.
Residents who recently traveled to a virus hot spot, for instance, would ..
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