While reporting on the COVID-19 situation last week, Minister of Health and Welfare Chen Shih-chung (陳時中) said that the 1922 SMS Contact Tracing System would gradually be replaced by the Taiwan Social Distancing app, but a precondition for scrapping the 1922 system is that at least 12 million people must have downloaded the app.
While the policy change is based on practical considerations, the Ministry of Health and Welfare should take into account the following issues and propose complementary measures.
First, when customers enter a commercial establishment, will the staff have to check them one by one as to whether they have