Competitors Apple and Google will help people find smittekæder with the new tool.
Two of the biggest rivals in the technological world are now together in the fight against the worldwide outbreak of coronavirus.
There is talk about Apple and Google, which jointly will develop a tool that can help to make effective smittesporing.
It informs the two giants, in a statement.
– All of us at Apple and Google believe that there has never been a more important time to closely cooperate in order to solve one of the most serious problems in the world, says in the joint statement.
the Aim of the new collaboration is to develop a tool, where you for example can detect that the man tested positive for the coronavirus.
Persons who have been close to the infected, will then receive a notification on their phone about the new smittetilfælde.
Apple and Google will make sure that their operating systems for smartphones, respectively iOS and Android without problems can handle communication across operating systems.
The two companies underlines, furthermore, that data security will be in the top, and that one only participates in the sharing of information, which it itself approves.
the Sharing of information must be done through bluetooth, inform the.
the Tool is expected to be made clear in the course of the coming months.
Through close collaboration with developers, governments and public health authorities we hope to be able to exploit its power to help countries all over the world to curb the proliferation of Covid-19 and turn faster return to everyday life, write Apple and Google.
Covid-19 is the disease, you can develop, if you are infected with coronavirus.
Several countries have already started to develop apps for the smittesporing. Also in Denmark, the health minister Magnus Heunicke (S) announced that it would develop an app that should help identify smittekæder.
Apple and Google’s cooperation will make it easier for health authorities, for example, to issue warnings to both iOS and Android, sounds.
To track down smittekæder is-among others-the world health Organization (WHO) considered as an important part of the fight against coronaviruses.
the world has over 100,000 coronasmittede persons lost their lives during the outbreak that began in China in the end of december last year.
In Denmark, 247 coronasmittede persons lost their lives.
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