Europe's experiment in using technology to fight coronavirus has achieved some early successes: millions of people have downloaded smartphone tracker apps and hundreds have uploaded the results of positive COVID-19 tests.
), apps have been made to be ‘blind’ to warnings of potential exposure to COVID-19 flowing through the system.
“I find it quite strange that many of the systems are designed not to be able to monitor and evaluate,” said Michael Veale, a lecturer at University College London. A total of 58 users registered positive tests in the app’s first three weeks of operation through to July 28, generating 137 close contact alerts. Of these, 129 opted to get a follow-up call from Ireland’s contact tracing team.While the numbers are small, partly reflecting Ireland’s low levels of infection with the flu-like illness, publishing them helps to show that people can make a contribution to fighting the pandemic by downloading the app.
So far 1,052 people who have tested positive have been issued with one-time codes to upload into the system, according to weekly figuresSwitzerland is publishing daily updateson downloads, active users and uploads of positive test results - now running at a rate of just over 10 a day. But, again, no monitoring of risk notifications is possible in its version of the Google-Apple setup. The two companies declined to comment for this article.
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