The isolation of Nizhny Novgorod will be tracked via cell phones

Nizhny Novgorod oblast is one of the first in the country to introduce the index of isolation based on cellular phones. It on her Instagram said the Governor Gleb Nikitin.

According to him, we are not talking about the use of personal data is anonymised big data. The source will be subscribers of all Telecom operators. The index is calculated by the number of connections of the subscriber to the base stations, the more connections – the more moves the owner of the cell phone.

Duplicate routes, for example, the path from home to work and back, technology eliminates. “But if, say, the boardwalk or the street gonna be a lot of people, we will see it and send a patrol, which asked everyone to go home. Or, if a separate area is a high index of connections to base stations, we will intensify patrolling there and we will test QR codes on out-of-home,” – wrote the head of the region.

the Governor cited data on the index of isolation for March 19 (19.6) and April 19 (14,7). “Movement on the isolation of a relatively peaceful time there, but insufficient. In this March 19 is the weekday. And April 19 is a day off. We need to strive to reduce this figure. The simple truth is that the lower the index value, the harder it is for the virus to spread”, he explained.

When the General index of isolation 14,7 Nizhny Novgorod region on April 19, data for the municipalities differed. The lowest level of isolation were in Nizhny Novgorod (20,5), followed Kstovskiy rayon (18), Bogorodskiy (14,7), Dzerzhinsk (14,2) and Boron (13,9). In Nizhny Novgorod the numbers varied widely by district. Worst of all isolated themselves residents of the Nizhny Novgorod region (22,8) and Soviet (22,7), best of all – the workers (18,2).

Publish from Gleb Nikitin (@gsnikitin) 20 APR 2020 10:19 PDT