A COVID-19 patient's iPhone receives its daily contract tracing message from the city of New York on November 19, 2020, in Brooklyn, New York. (Photo by Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Images) ...

Florian Vogt receives a fellowship from the Australian Partnership for Preparedness Research on Infection Disease Emergencies (APPRISE) Centre of Research Excellence (CRE), funded by the National ...

PARIS (Reuters) - France's new COVID-19 contact-tracing app needs to be downloaded by at least 20% of the population to be effective but is far from reaching that level for now, the minister for ...

A team of experts at the Pandemic Sciences Institute at the University of Oxford and Department of Statistics at the University of Warwick estimate the NHS COVID-19 app prevented around 1 million ...

Apple and Google said they will ban the use of location-tracking in apps that use their combined contact tracing system, per a new Reuters report. With privacy an increasingly worrisome factor in big ...

Aarogya Setu, the official national contact tracing app in India, is the latest app to connect with the Ayushman Bharat Health Account, the health ID component of the Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission.

BLACKSBURG, Va. – Smartphone apps track lots of data to provide users with an optimal experience. During the COVID-19 pandemic, contact tracing apps in particular have gained massive amounts of ...

PHOENIX — New data from Arizona’s largest county shows that in the past six months the number of people notified of COVID-19 exposure has dropped. Of COVID-19 cases reported from June to November, on ...