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In China, life is now governed by an official coronavirus health app on pretty much everyone's smartphones. More important than a passport, more personal than a photo, the app decides who can go where ...
Back in September 2020, the British government launched an app that would impact the lives of millions in England and Wales. The National Health Service (NHS)-branded Covid-19 app would tell members ...
A team of experts at the Pandemic Sciences Institute at the University of Oxford and Department of Statistics at the University of Warwick estimate the NHS COVID-19 app prevented around 1 million ...
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The AlohaSafe Alert app, Hawaii’s free state-approved COVID-19 exposure notification system, will shut down on Thursday. The app will no longer be available on May 11, according to a note posted to ...
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The Pennsylvania Department of Health (DOH) announced that as of July 27, the COVID Alert PA app will no longer be in use. The app, designed by the Irish software development firm NearForm, was used ...
HARRISBURG, Pa. - Pennsylvania's health department is getting rid of a mobile app that tracks residents who have the coronavirus. "COVID Alert PA" will stop running on July 27. It lets users report ...
Technology touted by state officials to help slow the spread of COVID-19 is rarely being used by the millions of Minnesotans who have it on their phones, an analysis of state data shows. The state ...
As more restaurants, bars and concert venues — not to mention employers — begin requiring proof of vaccination against COVID-19, Coloradans have a few ways they can prove they’ve gotten their shots.
COVID-19 vaccination certificates can now be linked with the Service NSW check-in app. The New South Wales government announced on Friday morning that the certificate has begun rolling out to the ...