Albertans will soon be able to use an app that could help track if they have been in contact with a person who has COVID-19.
The province say it’s in the final testing phase of the new contact-tracing app. “This is simply taking our decades-old public health approach into the 21st century,” chief medical officer of health Dr.
Deena Hinshaw said Thursday. The app is voluntary and the provincial government said information collected is stored within people’s phones and not with them. “The benefit of this app is in speeding up information-gathering to support the contact-tracing work that our public health workers are already doing,” Hinshaw explained.