China News Service, May 9 According to a report by the Japan Broadcasting Association (NHK) on the 9th, the Japanese government is currently studying the use of smartphone applications to grasp close contacts of people infected with the new crown virus, and plans to put it into use within May.
Regarding the operation process of the application, the report stated that when the distance between two smartphone users is reduced to a certain extent, the application will automatically record each other's data, and if one of them is infected with the new crown virus, the program will push the notification to the other party To inform them that they may have had close contact with the diagnosed patient.
According to reports, the Japanese government started a discussion on how to use IT technology to prevent and control the epidemic on May 8. Considering that the difficulty in introducing the application is how to protect the user's privacy, the meeting decided that the application will not obtain personal information such as the user's phone number and location.
Japan's Minister of Economic Regeneration, Nishimura Kangmin, said that the operating system of the smartphone is currently being upgraded to install the application, and the government will strive to put it into practical use within this month (May).