The Civic Tech people can then build novel contact tracing methods like the 1922 SMS based on that norm and to further public health. I think Taiwan is one of the, if not the, only jurisdiction with a very long-running contact tracing method that countered Alpha and the Delta and only gave way after the first wave of Omicron was successfully countered with that kind of contact tracing and it’s opt-in till the end. That is to say, at no time do we mandate that you have to use SMS-based contact tracing; one can always use paper-based methods instead. But still, the result speaks for itself. Hope that answered your question.

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