The Ministry of Communications and Mass Media wants to track patients with COVID-19 using geolocation

According to the project, information from the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation will be used as the main data for tracking

about the phone number of a person infected with coronavirus infection.

Then special algorithms make a listpeople who were in the same place as the patient. In addition, the list of potential infected people will include those who have been in contact with the patient over the past two weeks.

As a result, lists of numbers are formedsubscribers who were exposed to the risk of contracting COVID-19 through direct contact with a sick person. The received data is centralized on the information resources of the Ministry of Telecom and Mass Communications of Russia and sent to the operational headquarters of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation, the Russian National Guard, the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Ministry of Health. 

Draft order

The system will monitor whether those who were previously issued an order comply with the quarantine regime. If not, the relevant information will be sent to law enforcement agencies. 

The interaction on the system will be heldbetween the Ministry of Communications, the Ministry of Health, the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Russian Guard, the operational headquarters of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation and the mobile operators MegaFon, MTS, Beeline, Tele2, Yekaterinburg-2000.

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