By Josh Beckerman

--Apple Inc. and Alphabet Inc.'s Google are changing their plans for a Covid-19 tracing and notification process, planning to use a system that won't require users to install an app, CNBC reported Tuesday.

--Future versions of iOS and Android will include the system called "Exposure Notifications Express," CNBC reported.

--Apple and Google representatives said "as the next step in our work with public health authorities on Exposure Notifications, we are making it easier and faster for them to use the Exposure Notifications System without the need for them to build and maintain an app," CNBC reported.

Full story: https://www.cnbc.com/2020/09/01/apple-google-will-build-coronavirus-contact-tracing-software-right-into-your-phone.html

Write to Josh Beckerman at josh.beckerman@wsj.com

(END) Dow Jones Newswires

September 01, 2020 15:02 ET (19:02 GMT)

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