Australian authorities resorted to a surveillance system mobile phones to identify the locations visited by a couple infected with the coronavirus in an effort to prevent the virus from spreading and to test all people they came into contact with.
The couple traveled from her Yuhan Chinas in Adelaide Australias, to attend an auction for one home, before being diagnosed with coronavirus and isolated in hospital.
And the two is in steady state and cooperate with state authorities to provide more information about the places they visited in Adelaide.
In order to get a better picture of their movements in the area, the police used a cell phone tracking system commonly used to track criminals.
The system requires nothing but a phone number and helps retrieve information such as data locations that were collected every time the mobile phone connected to a mobile phone antenna. This data is collected by mobile operators and has nothing to do with whether you have activated the gps system.
Under Australian law, mobile operators are required to collect this information and store it for two years. It is possible to deliver this data to the authorities after a legal order.
Adelaide Public Health Officer Nicola Spurrier said the system was particularly important because the couple did not live in Australia, and could not accurately describe the areas they visited. Using cell phone data, they can better identify these locations.
For the record, the property in Adelaide, where the couple visited and attended their auction, was sealed as a precautionary measure.