Nova Scotia independent senator Colin Deacon wants to see a national contact tracing app put in place as another tool to help public health officials to combat the COVID-19 pandemic.

B.C.'s privacy watchdog says government and industry must collect the minimum amount of information necessary to stop COVID-19, and destroy it securely when the crisis is over.

“That’s how you shut down an epidemic, you shut down transmission from one person to the next.”

Even in areas with a low number of new cases, Trudeau said governments need to be able to instantly increase their testing capacity in the event of fresh outbreaks.

The province launched the app earlier this month to help speed up contact tracing when there is a confirmed case of COVID-19.

The firing has provided new fodder against the Republican governor as he defends his handling of the coronavirus outbreak.

Montreal-based Mila, the Quebec AI Institute run by computer scientist Yoshua Bengio, says its application is almost ready for use across the country.

Bringing people back together means spreading the coronavirus, experts say. So how do we deal with more infections?

Investigators have struggled to find around 2,000 people wanted for testing, an effort complicated by public criticism of the clubgoers and concerns about discrimination against the LGBTQ community.

Some companies are even requiring their employees to download a smartphone app.