BEIJING/SHANGHAI (Reuters) – Chinese tech giant Tencent Holdings has rolled out a new tracking app aimed at students who are preparing to return to school, the latest tool in the country’s coronavirus combat arsenal as the outbreak shows signs of easing.
FILE PHOTO: A Tencent sign is seen at the World Internet Conference (WIC) in Wuzhen, Zhejiang province, China, October 20, 2019. REUTERS/Aly Song/File Photo
Fuxuema, which translates as “school resumption code”, allows students to fill out their daily temperatures and obtain a color-based QR-code, a type of barcode, on their mobile phones that would show their health status, Tencent said in a statement on its social media account late on Friday.
Embedded in Tencent’s popular messaging app WeChat, the mini-app is similar to health code systems launched last month by Tencent and rival Alibaba Group Holding’s Alipay which Chinese residents across the country now have to use to travel within and out of cities.
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