Coronavirus live US updates: cases and deaths, latest news, today

Coronavirus live US updates: cases and deaths, latest news, today

Coronavirus live United States: latest Covid-19 news - 24 April

US coronavirus update at 10:05 EST/07:05 PST (16:05 CEST) on Friday 24 April
According to the latest figures published by Johns Hopkins University, 2,735,117 cases have been detected worldwide, with 192,019 deaths and 751,501 people now recovered.


In the USA, there have been 869,172 cases with 49,963 deaths. 80,934 people have recovered from the virus.

Apple and Google tracing update
Apple Inc and Alphabet Inc's Google on Friday updated technical details of the coronavirus contact tracing system they plan to release next month, saying new features would strengthen privacy protections and give health authorities more detailed data.


The system announced on April 10 will use Bluetooth technology to let authorities build apps to alert people who have been in proximity with those who have tested positive for the novel coronavirus.

The technology does not employ GPS location data and stores most sensitive data in a decentralized way on users' phones.

The approach opened a rift with European governments planning systems that would store data on centralized servers.

 Without the Apple-Google technology, apps built by those governments will face limitations such as needing a phone's screen to be unlocked to work properly.

 Health and privacy researchers also cited privacy concerns that the companies addressed on Friday by making it harder to use system-generated data to track people. (Reuters)

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