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Alberta will switch over to national coronavirus tracing app
coronavirus tracing app, although the timeline on when that will happen is unclear.The province confirmed to Global News that it hopes to transition to COVID Alert, which is currently only active in Ontario but will soon roll out countrywide.Health ministry press secretary Steve Buick said in an email Sunday that the province sees the benefit of a single program across the country.“It had been uncertain if (or) when (the) federal app would be implemented so the priority was to use our own, but now that the federal one is being rolled out, we accept the value of a single national one,” he said.Alberta’s app, ABTraceTogether, has run into some problems after it was initially launched in May.