A Survey on MCT vs. DCT: Who is the Winner in COVID-19

Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is a contagious disease appeared in late 2019 and caused by a virus called SARS-CoV-2. It is a pandemic spreading across the whole world and impacts millions of people and sadly causes death. There are two main Contact Tracing Methods (CTMs) to limit and slow down any chance of transmission of it: Manual Contact Tracing (MCT) and Digital Contact Tracing (DCT). The MCT abides by the guide to World Health Organization's guidance (WHO) on COVID-19 in terms of properly applying social distancing, wearing masks, washing hands, using sanitizers, etc. while the DCT abides by the digital contact tracing applications developed by several countries. This survey is mainly focused on these CTMs and the recent proposed solutions in this field, in order to highlight their drawbacks that negatively impact on both of satisfaction and feasibility in using them. The findings in the survey will be beneficial to understand the effectiveness of CTMs and current proposed solutions, in order to develop a comprehensive smart tracking system able to cooperatively contribute with both of MCT and DCT in extremely detecting, preventing, and slowing down the spread of COVID-19 or even any other similar pandemics in the future.

@article{Khattab2022,
  title     = {A Survey on MCT vs. DCT: Who is the Winner in COVID-19},
  journal   = {International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications},
  volume    = {13},
  number    = {5},
  year      = {2022},
  publisher = {The Science and Information Organization},
  author    = {Omar Khattab},
  doi       = {10.14569/IJACSA.2022.0130547},
  url       = {https://doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2022.0130547}
}