Consumer tech has already been used for 'Covid-19 contact tracing' in Taiwan and South Korea already. Now, Google and Apple have jointly announced a new API to do the same using Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE). It will apparently used voluntarily-donated, anonymized data on those infected with the virus to alert other users who may have been in transmission-range of them.
https://www.notebookcheck.net/Apple-and-Google-collaborate-on-a-new-API-to-help-track-Covid-19-transmission.461032.0.html