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September 10, 2020

Early Evidence of Effectiveness of Digital Contact Tracing for SARS-CoV-2 in Switzerland

• [Pre-print, not peer reviewed] Preliminary data from SwissCovid, the first Exposure Notification-based contact tracing app launched on June 25, shows that voluntary digital contact tracing has asimilar effectiveness for identifying infected partners of COVID-19 index cases as classic contacttracing, provided that both the index case and the exposed contacts use the app. The authorsconclude that…