Health & Fitness
State Of MN Releases New Coronavirus Exposure Notification App
The app, titled "COVIDaware MN," can notify you if you have been near someone who tested positive for COVID-19.
TWIN CITIES, MN — The state of Minnesota Sunday released a new mobile app that will allow residents to be notified when they have been near someone who tests positive for COVID-19.
The app, titled "COVIDaware MN," uses COVID-19 exposure notification technology that was developed by Apple and Google in partnership with the PathCheck Foundation.
"This technology is available to all state and national governments to slow the spread of the virus,"the developers note on the website. "As more states release this technology, more Americans have access to rapid notification about their potential exposure, allowing all our communities to be better informed."
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"Your phone remembers other devices it meets, but won’t identify you to anyone. Once you opt-in to the notification system, the app will generate an anonymous key for your phone—the key is a random number. To help ensure that these random keys can’t be used to identify you or your location, they change every 10-20 minutes."
Minnesotans can download the free app on the iPhone App Store or the Android Google Play Store.
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