The Danish Government is launching two new digital solutions to drive the safe and controlled reopening of Denmark, after the government mandated lockdown due to COVID-19.

IT services provider, Netcompany, has developed the broad national emergency applications for use by both the Danish health authorities and citizens, to support Coronavirus efforts, and will be available to the country’s public within two weeks.

COVIDmeter – monitoring the prevalence of COVID-19

COVIDmeter will collect information from citizens about disease symptoms in relation to COVID-19. The new digital solution can be used by all Danish citizens. Login is via a system usually used for online banking. The system can also inform users of up to date information on COVID-19 from the public authorities.

Users will be encouraged to fill out a digital questionnaire about their health on a weekly basis, allowing authorities to assess the development of the epidemic. Symptoms, recovering status after COVID19, and many other data is collected.

The Danish Serum Institute will use the data to monitor the spread of infection in the community. Danish citizens can now sign up for the new COVIDmeter solution at sundhed.dk.

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April 22nd, 2020