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NHS working with Google, Apple on app to track coronavirus contact - Sunday Times

The generation arm of the Nationwide Well being Carrier has been working on a mobile phone app with Alphabet Inc's Google and iPhone maker Apple that the government hopes will help in completing the coronavirus lockdown, the Sunday Instances newspaper reported.
The technology arm of the 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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