Earlier this week European Commissioner Thierry Breton shared an image on Twitter of him having a video conference with Apple CEO Tim Cook. It has been widely reported that during this meeting Cook told the Commissioner that the COVID-19 contact tracing API being co-developed by Apple and Google will be ready for launch on April 28th.
Weather Company Provides Disease Tracker API Access to Hackathon Participants
The Weather Company, which is a subsidiary of IBM, has announced developer access to a COVID-19 data API in support of IBM’s 2020 Call for Code Global Challenge. The new API, which can only be accessed by developers participating in the hackathon, provides the same data used in the Weather Company’s COVID-19 statistics pages.