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With the spread of Coronavirus, the tech giants are playing their part in spreading the awareness for the COVID 19 outbreak. As per the latest buzz, Apple and Google have now come forward to offer tools, which will help track the spread of the virus. Apple seemed to have claimed that both the companies are going to launch the developer tools in May, which will enable interoperability found in between the Android and iOS devices with the help of the applications from the public health authorities. The applications will launch over the iTunes App Store along with the Google Play Store. As per the experts, the private sector is coming up to follow the spread of the virus with the help of “syndromic surveillance,”.

It is a method that can allow the users to track pandemics. The tech companies are in alignment with the same since a majority of people in the US are seen having their phones having the applications that can be installed. Due to the funding coming from the government funding for the syndromic surveillance that has been dried up. Both Google and Apple have announced joint efforts for enabling the use of Bluetooth technology for helping the health and government agencies for reducing the spread of the virus via user privacy along with the security central for the design claimed the press release that is seen announcing the partnership.

The Bluetooth can be easily used to track the location of the device with the help of a small size Bluetooth beacons, which are able to offer you a precise position than a cellular signal or the GPS. The tools from Google and Apple will help in enabling the app makers for using Bluetooth to allow people when they are coming in touch with someone who has been diagnosed with the virus with the process known as contact tracing. Both the iOS and Android users are able to monitor the apps that remain accessible for locating your devices with the help of Bluetooth and thus allowing you to take off the track. In the coming month both the companies are not able to work with a broader based contact tracing platform with the help of building the functionality over the underlying platforms claimed by the PR from Apple.

On the other side, Google was seen also explaining the work. Any patient suffering from the virus can be alerted with the Google based devices.  On the website of the tech giant, the apps will not be able to collect the personal data along with the user location and other details for the people who are particularly proved positive and have been identified for the same. Apps will be able to store the location for the next two weeks. The data will be then used by calling the user or tracing the same by the health authorities for the virus management, the Google PR. Not just the US health authorities who are leveraging from the same but people from other nations like Singapore, and others are also relying on the same.