New Delhi: A new study conducted by researchers at the University of Oxford shows that the spread of the novel coronavirus (covid-19) is too fast to be contained by manual contact-tracing alone, and thus, recommends countries to explore the digital route to speed up their preventive actions.
The study comes at a time when India, with a total of 1,590 infected persons so far, races against time to trace contacts of positive cases and put them in quarantine.
According to scientists, the traditional approach of manual case isolation, contact tracing and quarantine are not fast enough for SARS-CoV-2, which has stunned the world for its high speed of transmission, infecting over 8.6 lakh people in just three months.
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