A coronavirus test project by Google has been thrown into confusion over comments made by US President Donald Trump.
He said the company is developing a web site for all Americans to examine whether they should be tested.
However, a sister company of Google Actual actually been working on a limited pilot California Bay Area.
Two sites launched on Monday – but only one local unbiased screening feature to test.
Actual sites are “in the early stages of development and planning for the roll test in the Bay Area, with hopes of expanding more widely from time to time”, the company said in a statement.
“We will take the time to assess operations at the pilot sites in the Bay Area before launching additional sites.”
Website, Basic Project, launched today, but appears to have run out of appointments for testing.
Another site was built by Google itself.
On Friday, President Trump promised a national website that will become the core of the government screening process and claimed 1,700 Google engineers have made “remarkable progress”.
“Google is helping to develop the website,” he said.
“It would be very quick to do – sites like the past – to determine whether the test is justified and to facilitate testing at a location close to comfortable.”
On Sunday, the chief executive of Google’s Sundar Pichai confirmed sites dedicated to “education, prevention, national and local resources” will be launched on Monday, in partnership with the US government.
But apart Indeed website still in the early stages of the pilot, limited to California Bay Area, although the plan was to expand to other locations from time to time.
“At the time of this unprecedented, we feel a great responsibility to help,” said Pichai.
“We will continue to do everything we can to deliver our mission and help people take care of themselves and their communities.”
As well as two sites, Google has been promoting health information on the homepage and YouTube and Google Search and Maps update regularly with a business or school closures.
executive last week from Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Apple and Facebook met officials at Downing Street to discuss their role in the crisis coronavirus.
Google also has launched a feature for UK users look for different health conditions and symptoms that give priority to the NHS information on other search results in an effort to combat misinformation.
