The Coronavirus App – level 1

13-05-2020 07:00

Companies Apple and Google make a special software. It helps stop the coronavirus. People install an app in their phones. The app sends a message when someone meets a person with the coronavirus.

The app does not use GPS. It uses Bluetooth. Bluetooth gets data from the phone every 10 – 15 minutes.

Some people are not happy. They say that the app is not safe. They say that it can show the names of sick people. Some users can believe the app only. It is possible that they do not go to the doctor.

There is one official app in every country around the world. In the US, every state can make its own rules.

The type of phone is not important. The app works in all phones.

Difficult words: app (a software or program that is in a phone), GPS (a system of satellites which can tell where on the planet someone is), Bluetooth (a technology that helps phones talk with each other).

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