A cyclist stops to check her phone as others walk along the banks of the Landwehr canal in Berlin’s Kreuzberg district as the sun shines on April 10, 2020 amid the new coronavirus pandemic. Germany said Sunday it would opt for a decentralised solution to help monitor those who have contracted Covid-19 and alert people who have come into contact with the infected patients. — AFP
The German government has brought in SAP SE and Deutsche Telekom AG to help develop an app to trace Covid-19 infections as European governments look to national champions to help build solutions to the pandemic.
"Deutsche Telekom and SAP will play their part in Germany and throughout Europe to ensure that European digital technologies are a central component in the effective fight against coronavirus,” SAP said on April 27 in an email.
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