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Alberta launches ABTraceTogether app to improve contact tracing, fight COVID-19 spread

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The province and Alberta Health Services launched a voluntarily smartphone application Friday that will use Bluetooth to more accurately and efficiently identify contacts of a confirmed COVID-19 case.

Officials say this is the first contact-tracing app to launch in North America. The app is called ABTraceTogether and is free to download.

The government and AHS worked with Deloitte to develop it, using similar technology used in Singapore as a model. However, the Alberta app collects less information than any other similar product being used by other jurisdictions (like Singapore, South Korea and Australia) to fight COVID-19.

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