LINE Health status survey of 83 million users in Japan Agreement with Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare March 31 6:47
LINE, a major telecommunications app, has signed an agreement with the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare to provide information on new coronavirus measures. became.
The survey will be conducted by LINE for all users in Japan from the 31st, calling for responses by April 1.
After 10 am on the 31st, a message will be sent to the user sequentially from the LINE official account, and regarding the physical condition at that time,
ど お り As usual
発 熱 Fever of 37 degrees 5 minutes or more,
が あ る There are five options, such as coughing.
Depending on your answer,
か When have you had symptoms,
尋 ね In addition to asking if you have returned from a foreign country within two weeks, ask if you are taking measures to prevent infection, such as gargling and hand washing.
You will be asked for the age, gender, postal code of the area where you live, etc., and statistically processed in an unidentified form and provided to the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare.
LINE has approximately 83 million users in Japan each month, and the company wants to help identify areas where clusters of infected people are occurring and to help governments take measures to prevent the spread of infection. .
He explained that the collected data should be discarded immediately after analyzing the results.
The survey is ongoing and the second one will be on the 5th of next month.
LINE "Visualize awareness of infection prevention"
According to LINE, Ayumi Inagaki, senior executive officer of Ayumi Inagaki, said, "This is the first survey of users nationwide since the launch of the LINE service in 2011." Can we visualize how it differs by region and generation, etc. We will try our best to get everyone to participate in the questionnaire survey and provide useful data to prevent the spread of infection. I want to go. "