San Francisco: Google sister company Verily launched a website late on Sunday that invites adults in northern California to answer questions about their recent health and travel that could result in their getting a free coronavirus test. U.S. President Donald Trump had thanked Google on Friday for developing a website that he said would help people determine whether they needed a coronavirus test. Verily, a health care technology company owned by Alphabet Inc, said it worked with some employees at fellow Alphabet unit Google, to develop the new website, https://www.projectbaseline.com/study/covid-19. People showing symptoms of the flu-like virus are meant to seek medical care, rather than a test through Verily's system, the company said. The data would be shared with healthcare authorities but would never be "joined with your data stored in Google products without your explicit permission," Verily said.

Source: Mint March 16, 2020 07:07 UTC