Mamlaka ya Singapore ilitangaza kuwa sio wote wapya wanaofika katika jimbo la jiji watalazimika kujitenga katika kituo cha serikali wakati Covid-19 janga. Badala yake, wageni kutoka nchi fulani na wakaazi wa Singapore wanaorudi watapewa kifaa cha ufuatiliaji cha elektroniki ambacho kitawaonya mamlaka ikiwa wataondoka nyumbani.
Maafisa wa serikali walisema kuwa watafuatilia wasafiri watakaokuja wanaokuja kutoka kwa kikundi teule cha nchi - pamoja na wakaazi na raia - na vifaa vya ufuatiliaji vya elektroniki, kuanzia Agosti 11.
Mamlaka iliunda wafuatiliaji kama chanya kwa wasafiri, ikizingatia wangepokea wapokeaji kujitenga nyumbani badala ya kujitenga katika kituo cha serikali. Wawasiliji wapya wataamriwa kuamsha vifaa wanapofika nyumbani, na wakati huo wamewekwa ili kuonya mamlaka ikiwa mtumiaji atajaribu kuondoka au kuvuruga kifaa.
Haijulikani ni aina gani ya kifaa ambacho serikali ya jiji inapanga kutumia, ingawa tangazo linaonyesha kitu kidogo zaidi kuliko mikanda nyembamba ya elektroniki Hong Kong iliyowekwa mnamo Machi na Korea Kusini pia imepitisha. Mamlaka yalidokeza kwamba wapokeaji wanapaswa kupokea na kukubali arifa kwenye kifaa chenyewe, badala ya programu ya smartphone iliyounganishwa na kifaa kama ilivyo kwa Seoul.
Walakini, jimbo la jiji limetaka kuwahakikishia wapokeaji kuwa kifaa hakitahifadhi data ya kibinafsi na haina uwezo wa kurekodi au kuhifadhi sauti au video.
Singapore imeripoti tu vifo 27 na coronavirus, ingawa kesi yake ni 53,051 kufikia jana, kulingana na Chuo Kikuu cha Johns Hopkins - iko juu sana kwa taifa la watu milioni 5.1 tu, ikionyesha maeneo ya karibu ambayo wakaazi wake wanaishi.
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- Authorities hinted that recipients are supposed to receive and acknowledge notifications on the device itself, rather than on a smartphone app linked to the device as is the case in Seoul.
- New arrivals will be ordered to activate the devices upon reaching home, at which point they are programmed to alert the authorities should the user try to leave or tamper with the device.
- It's not clear what kind of device the city-state plans to use, though the announcement hints at something quite a bit beefier than the slimline electronic wristbands Hong Kong deployed in March and South Korea has also adopted.
