Lanai residents to test COVID-19 app
Lanai residents will be the first in the state to participate in a pilot project involving a smartphone application that notifies people that they may have been exposed to COVID-19.
The state Department of Health said Tuesday afternoon that Lanai residents will be participating in the AlohaSafe Application Pilot Project launch, which is expected to debut today.
The app is an exposure alert tool to be used on smartphones that may help reduce the time it takes to notify a person of a potential exposure to COVID-19.
AlohaSafe is the only official COVID-19 exposure notification app in the state and is part of the national Google Apple Emergency Notification protocol, said DOH spokeswoman Janice Okubo.
