COVID Alert PA Mobile App (Pennsylvania Department of Health) HARRISBURG, Pa. - Pennsylvania's new coronavirus exposure-notification app is now available on app stores.The release of the app Tuesday is part of Pennsylvania's effort to more quickly break chains of transmission by using the new technology to notify people who may have been exposed.The state has a $1.9 million contract, using federal grant dollars, to deploy and maintain the app with software developer NearForm Ltd, an Ireland-based company whose app there has been downloaded by more than one-fourth of that country’s residents.Gov.
Tom Wolf was scheduled to appear at a news conference in Philadelphia later Tuesday to discuss it.The app is based on smartphone technology.