Accusations that health officials sabotaged the data in their own health-tracking app to give a rosier impression of COVID-19 risks were backed up today by a respected academic who contributed to its development.
Retired Chulalongkorn Professor Loy Chunpongtong said in a television interview that the volunteer developers of the Mor Chana tracking app quit because the Disease Control Department had interfered by hiding cases to reduce health alerts, undermining the purpose of a tool the public has been told to trust.
“If the Disease Control Department can’t or doesn’t want to identify anyone as [infected], Mor Chana will just be garbage,” said Loy, a consultant on the project who accused department personnel of not entering cases into the system.
He called out the department director to explain why they want everyone in the system, which tracks users to…
