DC debuts smartphone-based COVID-19 exposure alert system

WASHINGTON (AP) — The nation’s capital has become one of the first jurisdictions in the country to employ a new COVID-19 notification system. It’s a joint Google-Apple venture that delivers alerts to people’s phones, notifying them that they may have been exposed to the coronavirus. Washington, D.C., Mayor Muriel Bowser is urging all residents with Apple or Android smartphones to opt in to the new DC COVID Alert Notice system. Those who have been exposed to a positive vir