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Latest weapon in tracing and tracking coronavirus infections: your smartphone

via San Francisco Chronicle

April 23, 2020

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By Carolyn Said 

Your phone soon might know if you have spent time near someone with the COVID-19 virus.

That’s the premise behind new apps that developers worldwide are racing to write to aid in contact tracing — finding and alerting people who’ve been exposed to the coronavirus so they can break the chain of transmission, such as by getting tested and quarantining themselves.

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