PARIS (Reuters) - France's new COVID-19 contact-tracing app needs to be downloaded by at least 20% of the population to be effective but is far from reaching that level for now, the minister for ...

METHUEN, MASS. (WHDH) - State and local officials are urging residents to download a new contact tracing app that alerts users if they’ve been near someone who has tested positive for COVID-19. The ...

During the first wave of COVID-19, researchers at Oxford University built a computer model that suggested if 56% of the UK downloaded and used a contact-tracing app (alongside other control measures) ...

A few weeks ago, a friend of Jill Fredel’s got an alert on her phone through the COVID Alert DE app, saying that she had been close to someone who tested positive for COVID-19. Fredel is the director ...

The idea behind digital contact tracing is that, when an individual tests positive for an infectious disease such as COVID-19, an app on their smartphone can send a notification to other smartphones ...

France's new COVID-19 contact-tracing app needs to be downloaded by at least 20% of the population to be effective but is far from reaching that level for now, the minister for digital affairs said on ...