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RICHMOND, Va. — Virginia has rolled out a smartphone app to automatically notify people if they might have been exposed to the coronavirus, becoming the first U.S. state to use new pandemic technology created by Apple and Google.
New 90-minute tests that can detect coronavirus and flu will be rolled out in hospitals and care homes from next week.
The "on-the-spot" swab and DNA tests will help distinguish between Covid-19 and other seasonal illnesses, the government said.
The health secretary said this would be "hugely beneficial" over the winter.
Currently, a third of tests take longer than 24 hours to process.
Tech giants including Google and Amazon pledged support for a $5 million competition to accelerate cheap and fast COVID-19 testing in the U.S.
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