You won't see the name of the person who's tested positive-or when or where it happened-only that you're now at risk and should probably think about getting checked out and limiting your social interactions.
This could involve a verification code, for example, though this is one of the details to be finalized.Īt the other end of the line, if you have been in contact with someone who has caught Covid-19, your phone will let you know. To avoid false positives, there'll have to be some form of verification-a kind of certification from a health authority that a Covid-19 test has indeed come up positive, to prevent people from pretending or incorrectly entering that they have caught the coronavirus. If you contract Covid-19, you then have another choice whether to alert the people that you've been in close proximity to. Here's how the apps built on the Google and Apple tech are likely to function: First, you'll have the choice whether to download an app at all and whether to enable the coronavirus tracking at the mobile OS level, as explained above.
