The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services https://ncdhhs.gov is developing a COVID-19 Exposure Notification app called SlowCOVIDNC. The app is going to help North Carolinians slow the spread of the virus by alerting them when they may have been exposed to someone who has tested positive for COVID-19.
The app which leverages Google and Apple’s Exposure Notification System (ENS), will alert users if they have been in close contact with an individual who later tests positive for COVID-19.
The app is anonymous and does not collect, store, share personal information or location data. The app is voluntary to download, use, and is designed to enhance the state’s existing contact tracing efforts. The app currently in Beta testing will be free of charge and available to download through the Apple App Store and the Google Play Store.
If an app user tests positive for COVID-19, the person may obtain a unique PIN to summit to the app. This voluntary and anonymous reporting notifies others who have downloaded the app that they may have been in close contact with someone in the last 14 days who has tested positive.
SlowCOVIDNC periodically downloads tokens from the server from the devices of users who have reported a positive test. Phones then use records of the signal strength and duration of exposures to calculate the risk and to determine if an app user has met the threshold to receive an Exposure Notification.
Go to https://covid19.ncdhhs.gov/slowcovidnc for more information on SlowCOVIDNC.