A Google logo is seen displayed on a smartphone with a COVID-19 sample on the background. ( Photo Illustration by Omar Marques/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images ) Apple and Google launched a major joint effort to leverage smartphone technology to contain the COVID-19 pandemic.
New software the companies plan to add to phones would make it easier to use Bluetooth wireless technology to track down people for who may have been infected by coronavirus carriers.
The idea is to help national governments roll out apps for so-called “contact tracing” that will run on iPhones and Android phones alike. MAP: This is where there are confirmed coronavirus cases in the US and around the world Across the country, states are combating the spread of