Apple and Google are working together to fight coronavirus with a new contact tracing tool

Opt-in, appless contact tracing will use Bluetooth

Getting over the novel coronavirus outbreak, health experts and officials say, will take an extensive contact tracing regime in order to determine who will be able to get back to normal life the fastest and who will need to stay vigilant. With this in mind, Apple and Google have announced a collaboration on universal mobile APIs to introduce a Bluetooth-based contact tracing system — first through official apps, then, at some point, right on the operating systems of smartphones and tablets.

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