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Delivering a rapid digital response to the COVID-19 pandemic

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Lessons learned from South Korea's contact-tracing system.

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                  Communications of the ACM  Volume 65, Issue 1
                  January 2022
                  106 pages
                  ISSN:0001-0782
                  EISSN:1557-7317
                  DOI:10.1145/3507640
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