Confirmed Case Card Payment Information Automatically Sent to Epidemiological Investigation System... "Analysis Completed in 10 Minutes"

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[Asia Economy Reporter Seo So-jeong] Starting next month, the card payment information of COVID-19 confirmed cases will be automatically transmitted to the epidemiological investigation support system, drastically reducing the information acquisition period from the previous 2 days to 10 minutes.

Son Young-rae, head of the Social Strategy Division at the Central Disaster and Safety Countermeasures Headquarters, stated at the regular briefing on the 21st, "In March last year, the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport and the Ministry of Science and ICT developed the COVID-19 epidemiological investigation support system using mobile phone communication data and card payment information, and are currently conducting performance improvement projects." He added, "The quarantine authorities can quickly collect and analyze the movements of COVID-19 confirmed cases through this epidemiological investigation support system."

According to the quarantine authorities, before the system was introduced, it took about a week to analyze the movements of confirmed cases, but after its introduction, it has been processed within 2 days. Currently, since card payment information is not automatically linked to the system, it takes about 2 days, but from the 28th, the system's performance will be improved to enable automatic linkage.

Son said, "If this performance improvement is completed by March, information acquisition and analysis work will be processed in just 10 minutes, greatly helping to double the speed of epidemiological investigations."

Son also stated, "Various countries and international organizations overseas highly evaluate this information and communication technology and are requesting technical cooperation and support," adding, "To export these information and communication technologies overseas, we will also promote the development of export models tailored to local conditions and the production of manuals in local languages."

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