Need for just one contact tracing app stressed - Manila Bulletin

Manila 1st district Rep. Manuel “Manny” Luis Lopez amplified on Wednesday calls for the Department of Information and Communications Technology to come up with a single application or system in the COVID-19 contact tracing efforts.“Time is of the essence and we cannot afford to be lax. Making an app at this point in time would be very material in containing the pandemic,” said Lopez during a mixed live and virtual hearing of the House Committee on Metro Manila Development, which he chairs.

Ignacio said KiraCovid and Telemed were developed by the Department of Health , StaySafe by Multysis, CovidKaya by Dure, and TanodCovid and FASSSTER by the Department of Science and Technology. “Currently there are efforts and discussions on how we can integrate the systems mentioned in order to facilitate a wider scope of contact tracing efforts. We are working with the developers and application owners on this matter,” Ignacio said.

“I wish, I wish we can only have one particular data collection tool sana. Para wala nang double-encoding . That is my appeal to you,” he told Ignacio.

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