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Singapore distributes Covid contact-tracing tokens – BBC News
The government hopes the Bluetooth tokens will play a significant role in reopening Singapore’s economy.
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The Singapore government has started distributing Bluetooth contact-tracing tokens to its five million residents.
The tokens, which can be worn on a lanyard or carried, are a hardware version of its existing contact-tracing app which was rolled out in March.
Like the app, they use Bluetooth to look for other users’ devices and then log any contact with those devices.
They could be popular with people who do not have access to the app or a smar…
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