The full implementation of contact tracing app StaySafe.ph was expected next week.
The Philippine government was targeting to make the contact tracing app StaySafe.ph be fully implemented in the country by next week.
Presidential spokesperson Harry Roque said in his press briefing last March 12 that the said app was ready to be utilized nationwide. Roque assured that all problems with the mobile app had been fixed.
Roque also noted that the end-user would be the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) since it handled the COVID-19 contact tracing efforts.
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For local government units (LGUs) with their own contact tracing app, the national government had ordered that they should integrate their systems with the StaySafe.ph mobile app.
The said move was aimed at boosting the country’s contact tracing initiative, which Roque earlier said was the “weakest point” in the Philippine government’s COVID-19 strategy.
Last November, the Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF-MEID) mandated the use of the said app for national government agencies and local government units.
StaySafe.ph was considered as the Philippine government’s “digital contact-tracing application of choice”. Based on its website, StaySafe.ph was a contact tracing app, health condition reporting, and has a social distancing system
Users only need to register their mobile number. After the registration, users can report their health conditions — including their family members.
If you’re an app user, you would be notified about confirmed, probable, and suspected COVID-19 cases as this would allow you to avoid places with a high risk of COVID-19.
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