A woman checking her phone during the Covid-19 outbreak in Madrid, Spain, April 15. Spain will test a contact tracing app on June 26 on the Canary Island of Gomera. —Reuters
MADRID: Spain will try out a new smartphone app aimed at thwarting the spread of the coronavirus by injecting hundreds of false cases into the system in a test run starting on June 26 on the Canary Island of Gomera.
The simulation is part of a system intended to send an alert when one user has been in contact with another who receives a positive diagnosis, the government said.
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