Virginia launches the first U.S. app using Apple-Google coronavirus notification technology
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Photo caption: Germany’s coronavirus contact-tracing app, Corona-Warn, is displayed on an iPhone in Berlin on Tuesday, June 16, 2020. Krisztian Bocsi | Bloomberg via Getty Images. Article by Kif Leswing.
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- Virginia’s coronavirus notification app, called Covidwise, launched on Wednesday, just under four months after the Apple-Google partnership was first announced.
- It’s only for Virginia residents for now.
- It’s the first state in the United States to use the Apple-Google contact-tracing technology built into iPhones and Android phones. […]
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