The information will be used to help prevent the spread of the coronavirus, for contact tracing and geospatial hotspot mapping.
In the old regulations, the health department was required to develop and maintain a national database to enable the tracing of people who are known or reasonably suspected to have contracted Covid-19. In the new regulations gazetted on Thursday, the health department"shall develop and maintain a national database in order to guide appropriate responses in addressing, preventing or combating the spread of Covid-19, including contact tracing and geospatial hotspot mapping".
Regulations state the information concerned is only obtained from users of mobile devices and computers on a voluntary and opt-in basis.
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