The use of careFiji app for contact tracing during the COVID-19 pandemic: Digital gap and challenges faced in Fiji

Globally, digital contact tracing initiatives has been used as a tool to combat the COVID-19 pandemic. The Fijian Government and Ministry of Health are promoting the use of the “careFiji” app to help in contact tracing. This paper will discuss the rollout of the careFiji app which helps in combating...

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Autores principales: Chand, Shivnay S., Chand, Aneesh A., Chand, Krishneel K.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: IJS Publishing Group Ltd. Published by Elsevier Ltd. 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8270728/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34252596
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijsu.2021.106023
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description Globally, digital contact tracing initiatives has been used as a tool to combat the COVID-19 pandemic. The Fijian Government and Ministry of Health are promoting the use of the “careFiji” app to help in contact tracing. This paper will discuss the rollout of the careFiji app which helps in combating COVID-19 in Fiji, and the challenges caused by the digital gap that has surfaced during the pandemic.
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spelling pubmed-82707282021-07-20 The use of careFiji app for contact tracing during the COVID-19 pandemic: Digital gap and challenges faced in Fiji Chand, Shivnay S. Chand, Aneesh A. Chand, Krishneel K. Int J Surg Correspondence Globally, digital contact tracing initiatives has been used as a tool to combat the COVID-19 pandemic. The Fijian Government and Ministry of Health are promoting the use of the “careFiji” app to help in contact tracing. This paper will discuss the rollout of the careFiji app which helps in combating COVID-19 in Fiji, and the challenges caused by the digital gap that has surfaced during the pandemic. IJS Publishing Group Ltd. Published by Elsevier Ltd. 2021-08 2021-07-10 /pmc/articles/PMC8270728/ /pubmed/34252596 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijsu.2021.106023 Text en © 2021 IJS Publishing Group Ltd. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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