Mobile technology can support cross-border disease surveillance

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Recently, I experienced overtly laborious cross–border travel between Kenya and Uganda. Pre – COVID-19, such a traverse would cost me about 30 minutes. This particular one took 3 hours; due to an additional layer of cross–border COVID – 19 disease surveillance imposed on travelers by the ministries of health of the two countries.

The prescribed process flow for travelers is this: first, travelers present themselves to a temperature screening desk (notwithstanding that COVID-19 disease currently highly unlikely presents with fever).

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Note: The results are not exact but very close to the actual.