Epidemiological and public health requirements for COVID-19 contact tracing apps and their evaluation

1​ INSERM, Sorbonne Université, Institut Pierre Louis d’Epidémiologie et de Santé Publique, IPLESP, Paris, France 2​ Tokyo Tech World Research Hub Initiative, Institute of Innovative Research, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan 3​ Institute für Medical Information Processing, Biometry and Epidemiology, Ludwig-Maximilians University Muenchen, Muenchen, Germany 4​ Institute for Medical Epidemiology, Biometrics and Informatics, Interdisciplinary Center for Health Sciences, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle, Germany 5​ University of Turin, Turin, Italy 6​ ISI Foundation, Turin, Italy 7​ Centre for Mathematical Modelling of Infectious Diseases, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK 8​ MRC Centre for Global Infectious Disease Analysis, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, UK 9​ Big Data Institute, Li Ka Shing Centre for Health Information and Discovery, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, UK 10​ Department of Statistics, University of Warwick, Warwick, UK

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