Singapore will introduce a wearable device to assist with COVID-19 contact tracing and the minister responsible won't rule out making it compulsory.
Vivian Balakrishnan, the minister-in-charge of Singapore's Smart Nation Initiative, said the device is necessary because uptake of Singapore's contact-tracing TraceTogether app has stalled at around 25 per cent of Singapore's population. The minister said the wearable's main target is those who don't have a smartphone or don't have one that delivers useful data with the nation's TraceTogether app. iPhones fall into the latter category because TraceTogether was developed before the Apple and Google contact-tracing API was available. Singapore has shown no sign of adopting that offering since.
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