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By Gleb Stolyarov, Polina Nikolskaya and Olesya Astakhova

Mar 24 2020 6:35AM

Five days to develop a system to track people using mobile phone geolocation data.

Russia to use mobile phones to track people at risk of coronavirus

Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin on Monday gave the authorities five days to develop a system to track people who have come into contact with anyone with coronavirus by using mobile phone geolocation data. Under the new system, people would be sent information if they came into contact ...

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