A Universal App “Stay Safe” to be Used by LGUs in Facing the Pandemic

To speed up the (COVID-19) anticipation and alleviation endeavors of the Philippines, the National Task Force (NTF) against COVID-19, Inter-Agency Task Force (IATF) on Emerging Infectious Diseases, and Multisys Technologies Corporation dispatch StaySafe.ph’s free versatile application on Google Play for Android clients, empowering more Filipino clients here and abroad to get to the stage and report their ailments in the midst of the pandemic.

The versatile application has a contact following element that decides when a client’s telephone is close to another that has additionally introduced the application. The framework utilizes the underlying Bluetooth signals in the cell phones of clients, which permits them to trade IDs with secrecy, encoded on the gadgets. A while later, they will get warnings from the versatile application should they come in close contact with the individuals who have indications.

The application likewise has a region examining highlight that utilizes geolocation, just when empowered by the client, which additionally checks when somebody who detailed gentle manifestations or extreme condition is in the client’s area. In view of this, the government units (LGUs) have been requested to stop their separate contact following frameworks and rather utilize the StaySafe.ph application, which would in the end be the incorporated advanced stage for pandemic reaction.

Undersecretary Jonathan Malaya, representative for the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG), said each LGU should utilize the public government’s true computerized contact following framework as opposed to obtaining and executing their own. He said that this is in anticipation of the full execution of the public contact following framework through the StaySafe application.

Malaya noticed that the StaySafe application is promptly accessible for use by LGUs and at no expense.  On the off chance that the LGUs have their own contact following framework, this ought to be coordinated into the StaySafe application as needed by the Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF).

The DILG is settling the terms for the conventional turnover of the application from the engineer Multisys to the DILG as end-client and top of the NTF Task Group on Contact Tracing. The IATF has ordered that all information gathered from computerized contact following applications be submitted to an incorporated contact following information storehouse to be connected and coordinated with suitable lab results. The contact following information will be concentrated and will be connected to the Department of Health’s reconnaissance and contact following stage.