Hong Kong research team creates hi-tech app designed to assess exposure to coronavirus


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A new smartphone app created by a team of Hong Kong scientists will allow people to check their coronavirus infection risk with a hi-tech assessment based on their movements over the previous three days. CovidInArea, designed by researchers at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), features a map that shows places with coronavirus cases over the previous 14 days and calculates an individual’s infection risk using big data and GPS. “The government also has a website which shows a map of buildings with confirmed cases, but it is not very mobile friendly,” Professor Gary Chan Shueng-han of...