"Our overriding goal is to stop the spread of the virus and help all Americans impacted by this," Trump said. Internet giant has a large team of engineers devoted to the project, and has made significant progress, according to Trump. Verily Life Sciences, once a project in a Google X lab devoted to "moonshot" projects and now its own health business unit, is testing a "tool to help triage individuals for Covid-19 testing," Google confirmed on Twitter. Trump thanked Google while declaring a state of national emergency due to the deadly coronavirus pandemic. Google is helping to develop a website "to determine whether a test is warranted and to facilitate testing at a nearby convenient location," Trump said.

Source: Daily Nation March 14, 2020 00:22 UTC