THE government is now eyeing to centralize the government’s contact tracing database to boost the government’s efforts to contain the local spread of Covid-19.
Presidential spokesman Harry Roque said the government will conduct next month a beta-testing on the “interoperability and integration” of the national government’s StaySafe.PH System with those of the other contact tracing apps being used by local government units (LGU).
On May 1, 2021, he said the Smart Messaging System StaySafe.PH System will be tested in Pasig City.
Meanwhile, the Covid-19 Document Repository System (CDRS) will be tested in Antipolo and cities of Pasig, Mandaluyong, Valenzuela also on the same day.
Roque said the consolidation of the contact tracing system of the National Economic and Development Authority (Neda) was approved by the Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF) last Saturday.
“The Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) has been directed to be the overall lead in the implementation,” Roque said.
“The Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT), on the other hand, is directed to lead in the national interoperability, while the DOH (Department of Health) is directed to ensure integration of the StaySafe.PH System with the CDRS,” he added.
The DILG will come out with the necessary action plan for the system integration together with DICT and DOH.
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