Apple and Google launched a major joint effort to leverage smartphone technology to contain the COVID-19 pandemic. Using the Apple-Google technology, contact-tracing apps would gather a record of other phones with which they came into close proximity. Such efforts will require other tools and teams of public health care workers to track people in the physical world, they say. WATCH | How Taiwan is fighting COVID-19 with public health measures, big data:Despite being so close to the epicenter of the outbreak in China, with a combination of swift public health measures and big data, Taiwan is reporting fewer than 80 COVID-19 cases. In the first, they will release software in May that lets public health authorities release apps for both Android and iOS phones.

Source: CBC News April 10, 2020 19:16 UTC