And apart from testing tourists and repatriates at the airport, one of
the major features for keeping any possible COVID cases contained is
tracking tourists. As you heard earlier a travel app will be used for
that. But, from our review of global news, these are less than an ideal
way to track a virus whose transmission doesn't follow the logic of an
app.
We asked about that today:
Jules Vasquez
"I would imagine many people, they are on vacation, they just leave their
phones in the room, you may go somewhere and especially if you don't want
to be tracked. I'm just saying it is hard for us to accept that a tracking
app creates any type of realistic protection when we know the vagaries of
human behaviour can easily undermined it."
Mike Singh - Chief Technology Officer, CITO
"I don't think we will have 100% accuracy. Most people don't leave their
phones, I don't know if you leave your phone whenever you go anywhere
because it's now become part of our human being. Elon Musk said we are all
cyborgs because we have this device attached to us 24/7. So, I think most
people will have their phones with them just because it's on a vacation,
you want to take pictures, you want to send selfies, it's just become a
habit. So, I don't think we'll get 100% compliance but if we get, 90, 95%,
that's better than nothing."
Today's press conference went for a little over three hours - and there
was a whole lot more discussed, we'll have a little more later on in
the news, including what Belizeans coming home for the September
celebrations should expect…
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