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IDEA anti COVID-19 # 11
Collecting personal data for smart Covid-19 tracing:
How to motivate people
and not scare them off
APRIL 2020
Ole Jann3
(translated by Ludmila Matysková4)
Brief summary
 South Korea and Singapore, unlike many other countries, have recorded a slow increase in the number of cases of Covid-19 infection and a relatively low number of fatalities. Both these countries have not only carried out large numbers of tests, but have also used the information gained through them to trace the spread of the infection as quickly as possible, with the help of individual interviews, medical records, mobile phone data, credit card transaction data and CCTV recordings. Those who had come into contact with the chain of infection were then placed into strict quarantine. This substantially limited the spread of the infection and enabled softer restrictive measures to be taken across the remainder of the population, with a lesser impact on the economy. This strategy would now be possible in the Czech Republic, too. It would, however, require specific rules to be adopted, the principles of which
3 This study represents the author’s views and not the official position of the Czech Academy of Sciences’ Economics Institute nor of the Charles University Centre for Economic Research and Graduate Education (CERGE). We are grateful to Štěpán Jurajda, Filip Matějka, Ludmila Matysková and Jakub Steiner for their helpful comments and suggestions on the working version of the study, and to Daniel Münich for his help with editing the Czech text. Any inaccuracies or errors are the responsibility of the author and translator. The study was produced with the support of the Czech Academy of Sciences as part of its AV21 Strategy programme and Experientia Foundation.
4 University of Bonn.
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