RALEIGH, N.C. — Six months ago, Apple and Google introduced a new smartphone tool designed to notify people who might have been exposed to the coronavirus, without disclosing any personal information.

While Guam's COVID-19 app alert download rate is just below 34%, a far stretch from Public Health's goal of 60%, that rate is miles ahead of similar efforts in rest of the United States. As of Friday, ...

“I understand that many people will be downloading the COVID19 app. However, if I am one of your ‘contacts’ and you intend on installing the app, ‘Healthy Together’-- ‘Trace Together’ -- or any ...

In the early weeks of the U.S. COVID-19 outbreak this spring, technologists pushed forward an idea to help bring the spread of the new virus under control: smartphones could notify users who had ...

PITTSBURGH — There is a new way to access important COVID-19 vaccine information in Pennsylvania. The Department of Health announced Friday that Pa. residents can now use the “COVID Alert PA” app to ...

ALBANY — More than 1.3 million New Yorkers have downloaded the state COVID Alert NY app to assist with contact tracing efforts, but the phone application launched in October accounts for less than 1 ...

The Health Secretary urged MPs to download the NHS Covid-19 app, which launched on Thursday. Police officers are being told not to download the coronavirus contact tracing app on to work phones, as ...