coronavirus in Canada, experts say its time to talk more seriously about the country’s exposure notification app, COVID Alert.Since it launched in July, the app has been downloaded more than 2.7 million times.
But July was a different time in the pandemic.When it first launched in Ontario, roughly 80 to 100 people were testing positive each day.
Fast-forward eight weeks and those tallies have jumped to upwards of 400, renewing pressure to control the spread. If contact tracing for COVID-19 stops at the border, can it really be effective?
If anyone still needs an incentive to download the app, this is it, said Emily Seto, an engineer and health technology specialist at the Centre for Global eHealth Innovation at the University of.