Google and Apple`s contact tracing tech may have saved thousands of lives
(Android Central)

This is the first time that the epidemiological impact of the Google Apple Exposure Notification (GAEN) system has been investigated. What you need to know A study has found that the NHS contact tracing app developed by Google and Apple helped save thousands of lives in the UK. According to the study, the app was regularly used by over 16 million people last year. The digital contact-tracing app may have averted nearly 594,000 infections. The Exposure Notifications API, which was launched as a joint effort between Google and Apple last year to help slow the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, might have helped save thousands of live in the UK. A new study published in Nature claims the NHS app, which uses the Exposure Notifications API, prevented between 4,200 and 8,700 deaths in England and Wales. The app is available on all Android phones with Google Play services — including the best cheap Android phones. The study investigated the epidemiological impact of the NHS COVID-19...