Ireland to use voluntary virus tracker app

By Conor Humphries
Updated March 30 2020 - 12:53am, first published 12:50am
Irish officials will launch an app that keeps track of people a user has come into contact with.
Irish officials will launch an app that keeps track of people a user has come into contact with.

Ireland's government will roll out a voluntary phone-tracking app to alert users if someone they have been in contact with develops COVID-19, its health service says, two weeks before the pandemic is expected to peak in the country.

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