At every incidence of infection, we need to know its source and the people who may have been exposed to it. We do this thru phone calls and face to face interviews and depend on the memory of people to fix the date, time, location, and frequency of contact. It is time consuming and sometimes inaccurate or incomplete.

We now launch an app that will complement manual tracking with a digital database to expedite contact tracing with timely and accurate information. This app will record the places we went to using our digital identity code. No one knows the identity of the person behind each code. It will be known only when that person was in the same place at the same time as a suspected Covid positive person. And the information will only be known by the concerned person and our contact tracers who are governed by the Data Privacy Act.

To operationalize the app, we need you to register and download your own QR Code. That will be your secure digital ID. In this way, we can ensure more efficient, non-privacy intrusive contact tracing efforts that will allow for more effective management against the transmission of COVID-19 in the city.

Thus, I am highly encouraging every Nagueño and every person who will be proceeding to Naga City, to register in the app and download their own QR Code.

The battle against COVID-19 is everyone's concern. Government cannot do it alone, everyone's participation and cooperation is critically important.

Together, we can break the chain of infection."

MAYOR NELSON LEGACION

City of Naga