Since the outbreak of the coronavirus earlier this year, a number of apps have been developed that use Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) precise location to monitor the global spread of the virus. The European GNSS Agency (GSA) is maintaining a list of location-GNSS-Galileo based applications that, in GSA’s view, may be useful in response to the outbreak of COVID-19. The applications cover a wide range of uses, from the support to public authorities in understanding the dynamics of the outbreak to the support of citizens in their everyday life, for example by checking and possibly limiting queues at supermarket. Developers who have developed an app that is already working and being used to map the spread of the coronavirus, to monitor incidences of the disease, or to alert users about possible risky contacts, can forward information about it to GSA for inclusion in their list.
