CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (PNA) –The local government here started implementing Monday a digitized contact tracing system for the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) through the “Higala App,” a Quick Response (QR)-based information database system. The three-step guide in registering to the Higala App, a QR code-based contact tracing system for Covid-19 that is beginning to be implemented in Cagayan de Oro City on Monday (Nov. 9, 2020). Sabuga-a said cooperation should start with barangay officials, who were asked by the local government late last week to disseminate information about the web-based contact tracing system, and to lead in registering their constituents on Higala App. “The establishments should at least have smartphones to scan the QR codes so that the clients would only bring out their QR codes (printed or stored in their phones),” he said. Meanwhile, business establishments who are still transitioning to the Higala App system may continue with the manual recording of information through printed forms, according to lawyer Jose Edgardo Uy, head of the City’s Economic Cluster and Regulatory Compliance Board.

Source: The Local November 09, 2020 22:37 UTC