Ireland to roll out voluntary phone tracker app to tackle coronavirus

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Ireland to roll out voluntary phone tracker app to tackle coronavirus

To alert users if someone they have been in contact with develops COVID-19.

Ireland's government is to roll out a voluntary phone-tracking app to alert users if someone they have been in contact with develops COVID-19, its health service said on Sunday, two weeks before the pandemic is expected to peak in the country. The phone app, which will keep track of people the ...

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