A police officer wearing protective face mask walks next to a makeshift checkpoint, near the Bikernieki National Sports Base in Riga, Latvia. Latvia’s Apturi Covid (Stop Covid) app is based on technology launched last week by Apple and Google, whose iOS and Android operating systems run 99% of the world's smartphones. — AFP
RIGA: Latvia aims to become one of the first countries to launch a smartphone app using a new toolkit created by US tech giants Apple and Alphabet's Google to help trace coronavirus infections.
Early success of tracing apps in countries like Singapore and Australia has been patchy because Apple’s iPhone does not support their approach to using Bluetooth short-range radio as a proxy for measuring the risk of infection.
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