The new system is working on the series of documents and white papers which is using short-range Bluetooth communication for the establishment of a voluntary contact-tracing network, that keeps the extensive data on phones which have been in close proximity with each other.
Google & Apple will Track our Movements to Combat COVID-19
The public health authorities’ official apps will get access to this data, and users who download them can report in case they have been diagnosed with the symptoms of COVID-19. The people will also be alerted by the system, who download them, whether they were in close contact with an infected person. Apple and Google will introduce a pair of iOS and Android APIs in mid-May and we hope that the two companies will get successful to implement the system. — Sundar Pichai (@sundarpichai) April 10, 2020 Recommended Reading: Google on COVID-19: How We’re Helping Pakistan
