COVID Trace Nevada

COVID Trace is a contact tracing mobile app developed by the Nevada Department of Health and Human Services that uses a technology called the Exposure Notifications System from Apple and Google. The app exchanges anonymous information with other phones in your vicinity and can notify you if you've come in contact with someone who has tested positive for COVID-19.

The app uses Bluetooth to exchange random codes with nearby phones. Every day, it checks a list of random codes from people who tell the app they tested positive. If it finds codes that match, the app notifies you that you've been exposed and explains what to do next.

With the COVID Trace app, you don’t have to choose between your privacy and the health and safety of your community. The app was designed to protect and preserve your privacy. It doesn’t use GPS and can’t share your location or information. No one will know your location, name or address, health information, who you met, or whether you’ve tested positive.

The DHHS created this app so the people of Nevada can make use of the latest technology to keep themselves and their families safe and fight the COVID-19 pandemic. The more people that use the app, the greater impact it will make. By working together and using every tool at our disposal, we can protect our communities and flatten the curve.

Learn more at https://nvhealthresponse.nv.gov/covidtrace