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Britain's NHS working with Google, Apple on app to track coronavirus touch: Sunday Times

The technology arm of Britain's Nationwide Well being Provider has been operating on a mobile phone app with Alphabet Inc's Google and iPhone maker Apple that the government hopes will have the same opinion in completing the coronavirus lockdown, the Sunday Instances newspaper reported.
The technology arm of Britain's National Health Service has been working on a mobile phone app with Alphabet Inc's Google and iPhone maker Apple that the government hopes will help in ending the coronavirus lockdown, the Sunday Times newspaper reported.

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