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Corona app is now getting a new function: Critics had been calling for this for a long time

2021-01-28T04:37:37.718Z


The Corona warning app has a new feature. After some heavy criticism, the function should help the tool to be used more.


The Corona warning app has a new feature.

After some heavy criticism, the function should help the tool to be used more.

  • The Corona * app has been heavily criticized so far.

  • Now a new function should improve the app.

  • Statistics on the incidence of infections will soon also be available.

Munich - The

Corona warning app

has been heavily criticized since its launch.

However, the app is constantly being expanded with new updates.

For example, a contact diary function was recently introduced. *

Now the next update of the Corona warning app will follow and with it a new function that many critics had long requested.

Corona app with new function: Update brings new dashboard

The new functions include a dashboard on which current information about the infection process is to be made available.

Then the app will be

expanded to

include a display of the

encounter history

.

The aim is to inform the app users more precisely about the time of risk encounters.

This function will be implemented in accordance with the applicable

data protection

.

As a third innovation, the Apple interface for the older iPhone models 5s and 6 will also be implemented on the federal corona warning app.

This change alone will increase the pool of compatible smartphones in Germany by up to four million devices.

Corona warning app: Further innovations will follow

Also in February, the development team from SAP and Deutsche Telekom wants to integrate a voluntary user survey in which users can express their opinion on possible data donations

.

The exchange of infection codes with Switzerland should be possible in March.

So far, the federal app's system has been exchanging data with Ireland, Italy, Spain, Latvia, Croatia, Denmark, Poland, the Netherlands, Belgium and Finland.

In addition to Switzerland, Malta, Slovenia, Lithuania, Portugal, Austria and Cyprus are expected to join in the first quarter of 2021.

The Czech Republic, Estonia and Greece are in further planning.

The national apps in Great Britain and France, on the other hand, are not compatible because they are not based on the Apple and Google interfaces.

Of the 201 corona test laboratories located in Germany, 174 have already been digitally connected and 7 more are in preparation, the ministry said.

This means that over 95 percent of the test capacity is connected to the Corona warning app.

But 20 laboratories are "passive".

(dpa / rjs) * merkur.de is part of the nationwide Ippen digital editorial network.

List of rubric lists: © Kira Hofmann / dpa

Source: merkur

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