COVID Alert app nears 3 million users, but only 514 positive test reports

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New numbers out of the Public Health Agency of Canada show only a gradual increase of downloads of Canada’s COVID-19 exposure notification app since the start of the month, while the number of Canadians using the tool to report their positive test remains low.

"We’ve got the COVID Alert app. Take the teacher who felt fine, but he gets a positive after the app warned her she’d been exposed. COVID Alert meant she went home instead of the classroom. It’s a powerful, free tool that’s easy to use and protects your privacy. So if you haven’t already, download it off the App Store or Google Play," said Trudeau.

Intergovernmental Affairs Minister Dominic LeBlanc, Health Minister Patty Hajdu, and Chief Public Health Officer Dr. Theresa Tam echoed Trudeau’s remarks on Tuesday during a public health update."Please download the COVID-19 Alert app and join the three million Canadians that have done so to date," said Hajdu.

Ontario was the first province to embrace the software in late July but since then, New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador, and Saskatchewan have all adopted the technology. "The contact-tracing app should be designed so it is instantly valuable to anyone in the targeted community who downloads it...One way to make the app instantly valuable is for it to provide information on local contagion so users know the risks. Another is to include a symptoms-tracking function so users can enter their symptoms and be told when to seek medical help."

"They need to tell the public why they should be doing this, why it’s important, why [Canadians] need to download it beyond the fact that it’s safe," he said. "They still haven’t told people what the real impact having the app on your phone and reporting a COVID-19 diagnosis will have on the population."

 

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I want the App but I have an iPhone 6 which won’t support the App !! DARN IT

But it requires location services turned on. Which uses a ton of data. Many of us can’t afford that!

So what you're saying is that the media has over inflated the cases to push fear porn to Canadians

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