The French application StopCovid tracing of contacts against the coronavirus has been downloaded 1.5 million times more than a week after its launch, but has not given rise to “a handful” of notifications, said on Thursday the press-the secretary of State to digital, Cedric O.
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“Obviously, in a context where the prevalence of the epidemic decreases very quickly, the incentive for people to install the application is limited”, he acknowledged at the end of the presentation of a report by the national Council on digital health data. “We will continue to make sure that there are people who download it, may have to consider changes, and then if ever there is a second wave, it will be necessary to take a number of initiatives to push the installation of the application”, he said. “On the subject of the utility of health, it is not really the secretary of State to digital to drive the deployment of this tool, but rather to the sphere of health.”
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The effectiveness of the smartphone app depends on the number of people that use it, even if the government considers it useful “early downloads”, especially in urban areas. While the government communicates on the number of downloads or activations, specialists in digital had estimated last week that the number of users using continuously, the application could be far less. “We don’t know who active its bluetooth or not. The figures that have been circulated on social networks do not correspond to anything”, replied Cedric O.
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