世衛組織要發佈新冠官方app,避免謠言傳播

One of the most dangerous things about the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic is the misinformation spreading about it. While tech giants such as Apple, Facebook, Google, and Twitter have taken steps to stem COVID-19 misinformation on their platforms, it's still incredibly easy to stumble upon misleading or incorrect information about the disease while we're thumbing away at our smartphones trying to pass the time in self-isolation.

關於新冠病毒的傳播最危險的情況之一就是與之相關的假消息。雖然蘋果、Facebook、谷歌和推特等科技巨頭公司已經採取措施避免新冠病毒的謠言在他們的平臺上傳播，但我們在自我隔離期間玩手機打發時間時，仍然很容易看到關於這種疾病的具有誤導性或錯誤的信息。

But the World Health Organization will soon be launching an app that makes finding factual and up-to-date information about COVID-19 a breeze, reports 9to5Google. The app will reportedly be called WHO MyHealth.

據9to5Google網站報道，世界衛生組織很快就會推出一款應用程序，讓人們能很容易地查到關於新冠病毒真實的、最新的消息。據說這款應用程序名爲WHO MyHealth。

What interesting about the app is it's being built by an open-source collective of individuals made up of former Microsoft and Google employees and WHO advisors. Matter of fact, due to its open-source nature, anyone who wants to can get an immediate preview of the app by downloading the latest build over at GitHub.

這款應用很有趣的地方就是，它是由一個由前微軟和谷歌員工以及世界衛生組織顧問組成的開放源代碼羣體建立的。事實上，由於它是開放源代碼的，任何人只要在GitHub下載最新版本立即就可以預覽應用程序。

When the app launches, it's expected to be a hub of information about how to protect yourself from the virus as well as offering travel advice and calling out misinformation that's readily floating around about COVID-19. However, the app is expected to add more features over time, including the ability to receive location-specific notifications and self-triaging tools to help a person understand whether they may have the disease.

這款應用推出時，預計會成爲信息樞紐，讓你瞭解如何保護自己遠離病毒，還能提供旅行建議，並指出容易傳播的關於新冠病毒的錯誤信息。預計會逐漸給這款應用添加更多功能，包括接收指定位置的通知和自我鑑別分類的工具，幫助人們瞭解自己是否患病。

Further down the line, the app makers are envisioning WHO MyHealth to be capable of what's known as "contract tracing." This is a technique that uses smartphone data to track individuals and alert them to whether they have been in a location that's a COVID-19 hotspot or in direct contact with someone who has become infected with COVID-19.

另外，WHO MyHealth的開發商希望它能實現“接觸追蹤”。這項技術利用智能手機的數據追蹤個人，並提醒他們是否進入了新冠肺炎重災區，或者是否直接接觸了新冠病毒感染者。