Tracking apps as a protective shield against COVID-19 and its risks
Posted: Wed Jan 29, 2025 10:02 am
Digitalization is currently making an important contribution to getting the Corona crisis under control. Despite the exit restrictions that have been imposed around the world, private and working life continue in many areas - albeit in some cases noticeably restricted.
The willingness to digitize is growing
This is only possible thanks to the rapidly growing willingness to use digital solutions these days. Weekly shopping? No problem, mobile services deliver online orders from the supermarket to your doorstep. Forgoing culture?
Not at all. The range of streamable cultural events is currently growing just as much as the desire for personal contact. School holidays until summer? Hardly. Even the teaching and homework materials from schools and educational institutions are now available for download before 8 a.m.
Due to the Corona crisis, the World Wide Web has become a matter of course these days and is convincing even stubborn skeptics.
This trend continues in working life. Whether video conferences, online consultations middle east gambling data or remote training from the home office, what was unthinkable in business and administration a few weeks ago is suddenly an integral part of everyday business and helps to maintain the productivity of industry and government services, albeit at a painfully reduced level.
Apps in the fight against Corona
Since mid-March, another digitalization topic has been increasingly coming to the fore. The calls for the use of movement and contact data from smartphones to contain the coronavirus are also becoming noticeably louder in Germany. The aim is to quickly and comprehensively trace the contact routes of infected people and thus decisively counteract the further spread of Covid-19 with the help of digitalization.
Currently, health authorities often still record the contacts of a person who has tested positive for the coronavirus using pencil, paper and telephone – a herculean task in times of heavily stretched human resources.
If the Corona app were to become established in Germany, it could perhaps also become part of the federal government's exit strategy to gradually relax the contact bans and other restrictions.
The willingness to digitize is growing
This is only possible thanks to the rapidly growing willingness to use digital solutions these days. Weekly shopping? No problem, mobile services deliver online orders from the supermarket to your doorstep. Forgoing culture?
Not at all. The range of streamable cultural events is currently growing just as much as the desire for personal contact. School holidays until summer? Hardly. Even the teaching and homework materials from schools and educational institutions are now available for download before 8 a.m.
Due to the Corona crisis, the World Wide Web has become a matter of course these days and is convincing even stubborn skeptics.
This trend continues in working life. Whether video conferences, online consultations middle east gambling data or remote training from the home office, what was unthinkable in business and administration a few weeks ago is suddenly an integral part of everyday business and helps to maintain the productivity of industry and government services, albeit at a painfully reduced level.
Apps in the fight against Corona
Since mid-March, another digitalization topic has been increasingly coming to the fore. The calls for the use of movement and contact data from smartphones to contain the coronavirus are also becoming noticeably louder in Germany. The aim is to quickly and comprehensively trace the contact routes of infected people and thus decisively counteract the further spread of Covid-19 with the help of digitalization.
Currently, health authorities often still record the contacts of a person who has tested positive for the coronavirus using pencil, paper and telephone – a herculean task in times of heavily stretched human resources.
If the Corona app were to become established in Germany, it could perhaps also become part of the federal government's exit strategy to gradually relax the contact bans and other restrictions.