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TraceTogether — behind the scenes look at its development process

25 March 2020

Contact tracing is essential for containing COVID-19, but not everyone can remember who they have been in contact with.

TraceTogether uses Bluetooth to identify who you have been with rather than where you have been. To develop this app, GovTech had to test dozens of different phones, calibrating wildly differing Bluetooth signal strengths.

TraceTogether explanation and how it can help contain COVID-19

Who, not where

TraceTogether team that developed the app

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