COVID Alert CT App
Overview
COVID Alert CT is completely free - Android users can download the app from the Google Play Store, and iPhone users can enable Exposure Notifications within the Settings app. You must be at least 18 years old to use COVID Alert CT.
COVID Alert CT is the voluntary, anonymous, exposure-notification smartphone app.
The app keeps track of when people are close to another app-enabled smartphone using Bluetooth technology.
The app alerts you if you were in close contact with someone who tests positive for COVID-19.
The app also alerts other app-enabled smartphones if you test positive for COVID-19 and were in close contact with those individuals, based upon your consent to share close contact codes.
How it Works
As you go about your day, the app uses Bluetooth to detect when another person with the same app comes within 6 feet. Your phone exchanges a secure random code with the other phone to record that they were near.
If the app senses that you’ve been with 6 feet of someone for a total of 15 minutes or more in a day, the app adds their phone’s random code to a list of close contacts. Devices that are just passing by or stay more than 6 feet away from you are not included on the list.
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