Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare announces "Notice that there is a possibility of heavy contact"

What is the "potentially heavy contact" notification app? Published by the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare at 6:05 on June 13

The Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare has released an outline of an app for smartphones that allows you to be notified if you may have been in heavy contact with a person infected with the new coronavirus. We are aiming for practical use within the next week, and will be notified if there is contact for 15 minutes or more within a radius of 1 m.

This application records each other's data when users approach each other at a certain distance, and when a person who is known to be infected with the new coronavirus registers the information in the application, the contact destination is notified ..

The Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare is proceeding with the development of the app as it can be expected to prevent the spread of the infection by knowing the possibility of contact with an infected person, which leads to prompt examination of the PCR test, and announced its outline.

According to this, if there is a contact with the infected person registered in the application for 15 minutes or more within a radius of 1 m within the past 14 days, the record is notified as a possibility of heavy contact.

If you are notified, if you answer the app saying "I have a symptom such as fever", the contact information of a nearby specialized outpatient clinic will be displayed and you will be guided to have a medical examination.

Even if you do not have any symptoms, if you answer "There are people who are infected or suspected to be infected, such as family members, friends, colleagues at work", you will be asked to visit a specialist outpatient clinic and you will be asked to wait for 14 days at home. ..

Considering the protection of personal information such as not acquiring location information, the application should have a mechanism that does not mutually know when, where, and who was contacted so that no individual is identified among users. about it.

The Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare is aiming for commercialization within next week.