The spread of COVID-19 is tough to trace and even tougher to predict, but researchers at Pittsburgh’s Carnegie Mellon University created an early warning system to help protect you from the virus ...

Despite very public messaging that the Bluetooth contact-tracing tools for COVID-19 developed by Google and Apple would not track users' locations, its implementation within Android operating systems ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The Bluetooth-based system predicted close contacts with an accuracy between 0.88 and 1. The system also ...

Contact tracing apps can sharply reduce the spread of the novel coronavirus even when only a few people use them, a study published on Thursday by researchers at Google and Oxford University showed.

The risk of catching COVID-19 as calculated by a smartphone app scales with the probability of subsequently testing positive for the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, showing that digital contact tracing is a ...

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 ...

More than one in four of Finland's 5.5 million people have downloaded the country's contact tracing smartphone app since it was launched on Monday, the public health authority said.

To activate COVID-19 contact tracing notifications on your iPhone, you'll need to enable it in your Settings app.

Good day. Bluetooth is the technology of choice for companies and governments building coronavirus contact-tracing apps, but researchers are raising questions about security risks, WSJ Pro’s Catherine ...

The ACT government is decommissioning the Check in CBR mobile app that was used for contact tracing during the pandemic. In a statement, ACT Minister for Health Rachel Stephen-Smith said the app will ...

COVID-19 tracing apps are useful in identifying the infected individuals within an area. However, when personal information is compromised, it might be a sign to improve its security. According to the ...