Covid 19 Exposure Notifications May Not Be Supported - Covid-19 Realtime Info
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Covid 19 exposure notifications may not be supported. System availability depends on support from your local public health authority. When you install an authorized app it will ask you to enable the exposure notifications feature. Helping health authorities fight covid 19. If youve been exposed to someone who has shared they have covid 19 your app will notify you and give you further instructions.
Covid 19 and offers an opportunity to answer questions and provide referrals for testing medical evaluation and other necessary support services. The goals of this interaction are to inform the person that they may have been exposed to covid 19 assess their medical condition and other risk factors and gather information for continued. Tap on enable to turn on the function. Phase two of the applegoogle contact tracing plan.
In may 2020 apple and google launched a covid 19 exposure notifications technology which allows users to choose whether they want to use covid 19 tracing apps on their phones. Technology can support and augment these efforts by allowing public health authorities to quickly notify people who may have been exposed to a person who has contracted covid 19 including those. This is where youll be able to report your covid 19 status. As you can see apple and googles exposure notifications system isnt a complete replacement for a traditional contact tracing.
If you have covid 19 you may share that info with your app to help alert the people youve been in contact with. Ios 137 lets you opt in to the covid 19 exposure notifications system without the need to download an app.