Apple and Google Announce Joint Effort in CCP Virus Contact Tracing

A man wearing a protective mask and gloves talks on a cell phone in a ziplock bag during the COVID-19 pandemic in New York City on April 8, 2020. Cindy Ord/Getty Images

Apple and Google on Friday said they were teaming up to roll out software to enable tracing of CCP virus cases.

The software will alert people who were recently in contact with confirmed cases of the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus, commonly known as novel coronavirus.