Residents of Ontario can download a new app that can tell them whether they have been around someone who has tested positive for COVID-19 over the previous two weeks. But while government officials say the goal is to make the COVID Alert contact notification app available across the country and are in talks with other provinces, they could not say when it will be available outside Ontario. The app is the federal government's latest move in the battle to prevent the spread of COVID-19 as Canada's economy gradually reopens. Canadians can download the app to their mobile phones, which will use bluetooth technology to exchange signals with nearby phones. Officials say the more people who download the app, the more effective it will be and stressed that it is a notification app, not a contact-tracing app.

Source: CBC News July 31, 2020 15:30 UTC