The new NHS Covid-19 app will launch in England and Wales on September 24. Sign up for the top news stories every day to keep you informed with what's going on in the West Midlands. Did you know with ...

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 ...

(TNS) — The digital contact tracing effort in Virginia is 2 million phones strong. Roughly a quarter of the adult population has downloaded the state’s COVIDWISE app or opted in on their iPhones to ...

Bitter enemies teamed up to build tools they hoped would help slow the virus’s spread. If we’ve learned anything from covid-19, it’s the extent to which our lives are enmeshed with those of the people ...

NYC Test & Trace Corps, the city's initiative for Covid testing and contact tracing, will end universal contact tracing—where every positive case is called up—by the end of April. The decision to end ...

WA Notify is the state’s contact tracing system which uses Bluetooth capability to notify users of possible exposure to COVID-19. New, added functionality will make it all the more effective. While ...

A recent meningitis outbreak in Canterbury, UK, has put the spotlight back on one of public health's most critical tools, contact tracing. The cluster, linked to a university setting and social venues ...

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