coronavirus cases surge to record levels, the pressure is growing on Alberta and British Columbia to adopt Canada’s COVID-19 exposure notification app.The two provinces have skirted the federal system since its launch in July.
Both have their reasons for not signing on, but with contact tracing resources stretched to the max, experts say the merit behind those reasons is weakening.“We’ve seen B.C.
and Alberta become epicentres of infection lately. I think having everyone in on the game would be helpful, even if it’s only used to report four or five per cent of infections at this point,” said Jean-Paul Soucy, an epidemiology PhD student at the University of Toronto.