StateScoop: Apple and Google announced Tuesday that future versions of their mobile phone operating systems will include their jointly developed COVID-19 contact tracing platform as a built-in feature that users can voluntarily turn on if their states are using it.
The update to the Exposure Notifications API, the companies said in a conference call with reporters, will enable public health authorities to augment their contact tracing operations without having to develop or maintain a standalone app of their own. Health authorities in Nevada, Maryland, Virginia and the District of Columbia were the first to sign up for the new service.
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