New Zealand’s recent COVID-19 outbreak has allowed a collaborative research project to monitor the effectiveness of lockdown measures in real time, thanks to a virtual ‘virus’.
Earlier this year, the Safe Blues app was – via University of Auckland collaborators and The University of Queensland’s AI 4 Pandemics group leader Associate Professor Yoni Nazarathy – launched, ‘infecting’ the mobile phones of volunteers at the University of Auckland with virtual tokens.
