IATF-EID Approves Automatic Contact Tracing System

Smart Messaging System receives approval for automatic contact tracing to strengthen and improve the use of StaySafe.PH System.

In a virtual conference last Sunday, Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque announced that the Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF-EID) approved the recommendation of the National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) to use automatic contact tracing through Smart Messaging System.

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Video from StaySafe.ph

“To ensure interoperability and integration of all contact tracing applications integration in the StaySafe.PH System, there will be an initial beta-testing, together with the proposed messaging, of the Smart Messaging System in Pasig City due on May 1, 2021, and beta-testing in the consortium of Antipolo and cities of Pasig, Mandaluyong, Valenzuela due on May 1, 2021, with access to Covid-19 Document Repository System (CDRS),” Roque said.

The StaySafe.PH System is the official social distancing, Covid-19 health-condition reporting, and contact tracing system of the government.

Meanwhile,  the Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) has been assigned to lead in the national interoperability, while the Department of Health (DOH) is directed to ensure integration of the StaySafe.PH System with the CDRS.

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Currently, there is no unified national contact tracing system in use after various contact tracing applications had emerged.

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Source: Philippine News Agency 

Written by Cedie Salido