This Mexico state fights COVID-19 using an app first built to track and analyze crime Sponsored by Oracle
When COVID-19 came to Mexico in early March, Querétaro Governor Francisco Dominguez gave his administration one week to devise a plan that would help local health officials fight the pandemic and prevent contagion.
“At the time, we didn’t have any COVID-19 cases, but we saw what was going on in other countries and knew we needed to immediately identify and treat infected residents,” says Juan Martin Granados Torres, government secretary for the state of Querétaro. “We also needed to keep our hospitals and healthcare workers from getting overwhelmed.
Torres and his team of public security specialists and technology architects had to get creative—there was no time to build a COVID-19 tracking system from scratch. The team looked at an existing public safety platform the state launched two years ago, which tens of thousands of Querétaro residents and criminal justice officials have used to report and analyze criminal activity in their communities.
“Because the technology architecture was so well structured, we knew it could quickly be repurposed to help residents report their COVID-19 symptoms, too,” says Pedro Toscuento, director at the Center of Information and Analysis for Security of Querétaro , who reports to Torres.
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