Germany’s forthcoming contact tracing app will be markedly different to the app in development in the U.K. and the approach being considered for the U.S. Notably, most notably it will rely on tests, ...

The hope was that contact tracing — the public health detective work that tracks down the web of each exposure — would defeat the coronavirus. But right now, in places like Spokane County, the ...

Scientists and researchers from 27 countries expressed concerns over privacy in using contact tracing apps to monitor the Covid-19 (coronavirus) outbreak and urged governments to avoid misuse by ...

The government has launched a contact tracing app into app stores. Our technology editor Adrian Weckler runs through what it is, how it works and what it will and won’t do. It is available on Apple’s ...

A German research institute that's involved in developing a COVID-19 contacts tracing app with the backing of the national government has released some new details about the work, which suggests the ...

It’s summer 2021. You rent a house in the countryside with a bunch of friends for someone’s birthday. The weather’s gorgeous that weekend, so mostly you’re all outside—pool, firepit, hammock, etc.—but ...

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 ...