A new smartphone app that alerts users if they have come into close contact with someone who has tested positive for the novel coronavirus went into service on June 19. The health ministry is ...

A contact-tracing app could help stop the coronavirus pandemic, but 80% of current smartphone owners would need to use it, say experts advising the NHS. The University of Oxford's Big Data ...

That was the first I knew of the plan to build a contact tracing app, a project that soon appeared to be at the very centre of the government's strategy to beat coronavirus and help us all emerge ...

In this Strategic Update, Jennifer Easterday explores how a human security approach to COVID-19 tech tools would prompt tech companies, governments, and other actors to work with communities in ways ...

Kamehameha Schools said the data will decrease the amount of time it takes to do manual contact tracing and help prevent larger outbreaks. — KIM CASTILLON photo Saying the move came without ...

Early lockdown efforts, citizens' adherence to the rules, widespread testing and contact tracing, and good communication were the keys to the country's previous success dealing with the virus.