© 2021 EPFL Mediacom communication visuelle - NotifyMe is a new app that alerts people who attended an event where there was a risk of COVID-19 infection. The app, using technology developed in part at EPFL, in no way compromises users' personal data. NotifyMe works well in conjunction with SwissCovid and is currently being pilot-tested at EPFL. Unfortunately, keeping a distance of 1.5 meters between people in meeting rooms is not necessarily enough to eliminate the risk of airborne transmission of SARS-CoV-2, especially in light of the new, more contagious variants. Even if everyone in the room wears a mask, the virus can still spread, and the SwissCovid app won't alert you if you kept the required social distance. A new protocol called CrowdNotifier, developed in part at EPFL , could help break transmission chains resulting from these types of events. The protocol is designed to strictly protect users' identities - just like for SwissCovid - and uses open-source code.
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