SHANGHAI (Reuters) – China’s health tracking QR codes, which have played a key part in the country’s successful containment of the coronavirus, now look set to play a much broader role in daily life as local authorities dream up new uses for the technology.
A security guard holds up a QR code for a health app at a checkpoint to the 798 art district in Beijing following the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, China April 29, 2020. REUTERS/Thomas Peter
Embedded in the popular WeChat and Alipay smartphone apps, the codes use self-reported and automatically collected travel and medical data to give people a red, yellow or green rating indicating the likelihood of having the virus.
To walk around freely, people in China must have a green rating and since February they have been asked to present their health QR codes to gain entry into restaurants, parks and other venues.
The codes had so far met with little public resistance, seen as a necessary tool to get the economy…
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