The Prime Minister says the app is completely voluntary and will not share or store any personal information, including a user’s geographical location
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau arrives at Parliament Hill's West Block for a meeting of the Special Committee on the COVID-19 Pandemic, on June 17, 2020.Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says a made-in-Canada mobile app to alert Canadians who may have been exposed to a person infected with COVID-19 is ready for testing in Ontario.
Trudeau says the app is completely voluntary and will not share or store any personal information, including a user’s geographical location.Story continues below advertisement It will work by asking people to anonymously tell the app if they have tested positive for COVID-19, and then all the phones that have recently been close to that phone for an extended time will alert their holders to a possible exposure to the illness.
Phone makers, including Apple and Google, have developed new software to use Bluetooth connections to log what other phones you have come into contact with recently.Blood samples collected from tens of thousands of Canadians will soon be tested for signs of COVID-19 antibodies as the federal government seeks to learn how many people have already contracted the novel coronavirus.
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