Canada releases its COVID-19 Tracing app using the Apple/Google API

Apple and Google engineers teamed up to create a cross-platform API for tracing the spread of the coronavirus. The API was officially released in May 2020 and has seen little adoption by agencies around the world.

Canada’s app, called COVID Alert, is one of the first high-profile uses of the API and is available for all iPhone users in Canada. You can download the app if you’re not in Canada, but there is no benefit from tracing notifications due to how Canada’s app tracks infections.

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