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Since the outbreak of Novel Coronavirus which emerged in China's Wuhan, the pandemic has killed, according to China's numbers, 15,374 people globally and infected 351,731 individuals. Recently the death toll in Italy surpassed the initial epicenter of the outbreak in China, where officially 3,153 people have died due to the COVID-19.
But recently Beijing authorities announced on March 19 that more than 21 million cell phone accounts were canceled while in past three months 840,000 landlines were closed in China, which gives an idea that probably these closed numbers belonged to the people who died due to the disease.
The Chinese authority introduced mandatory facial scans on December 1, 2019, to confirm the identity of the person who registered the phone. The people in China also have to sync their bank accounts and social security account with their cell phone as all the apps can detect the SIM card and then check with the database to make sure the number belongs to the person.
In China, it is mandatory to install a cell phone app and register their personal health information. The app can generate a QR code which is possible in three colors to classify a person's health condition. In this case, red means the person has an infectious disease, while yellow and green represent the possibility of infectious disease and no sign of such illness respectively.