MOBILE HEALTH APPLICATION AND COVID-19: OPPORTUNITIES AND CHALLENGES
Abidemi Emmanuel Adeniyi, Joseph Bamidele Awotunde, Roseline Oluwaseun Ogundokun, Paul Oluwatoba Kolawole, Moses Kazeem Abiodun, Abosede Adepeju Adeniyi
Abstract
The Novel Coronavirus has been declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization (WHO), which as at April 27, 2020 COVID-19 infected more than 2,959,929 people worldwide and resulted in more than 202,733 deaths in 213 countries. In recent times, mobile technologies have expanded exponentially in both emerging and developed countries. Mobile technology adoption is now much greater than those of traditional internet and land-line telephones. Mobile Phone tracking approach is a powerful tool in the fight against the COVID- 19 pandemic. Since the outbreak of the pandemic, there has been a scramble to use mobile phone to fight the virus. A lot of measures have been taken to reduce the rate of community transmission and despite the various measures taken; the rate of the infection and mortality rate is still very high. Therefore, this paper discusses the model of mobile tracking surveillance and monitoring for prompt detection of infected patient. The paper also, made efforts to convey the benefits the government and public health authorities can derived in determining the best course of action to control the COVID-19 pandemic. The hope of using mobile tracking technology in COVID-19 will have a great impact on the quality of outbreak care that can be delivered to patients across socioeconomic and geographic boundaries.