The coronavirus has infected more than a million people worldwide, and almost every country on earth has been hit by the pandemic with no clear end in sight. One solution depends on achieving an adequate level of immunity in the global population in order to stop the continued spread of the virus. But that's not a comforting thought for experts like Steven Hoffman, director of the Global Strategy Lab and a global health law professor at York University who studies pandemics. "We've got to move beyond traditional contact tracing public health approaches to harness 21st century technology to take control of this unprecedented 21st century pandemic." A visual representation of how a contact tracing mobile app could be effective in stopping the spread of COVID-19.

Source: CBC News April 04, 2020 07:52 UTC