TousAntiCovid already has nearly 5.7 million downloads.
Released on October 22, the new version of the app does better in seven days than StopCovid in four months of existence.
However, this figure includes around 1.2 million people who adopted StopCovid.
It must be said that its beginnings were also less chaotic, the most virulent detractors of this solution having remained, in their majority, silent.
In detail, 24,307 people declared themselves as Covid cases in the application and 2,289 people were notified as contact cases.
For the sake of transparency, this information is available in the application.
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Contact tracing remains important, even in confinement, for people who go to work, travel to do their shopping, for caregivers, in all places that welcome the public ...
" by Cédric O, Secretary of State for Digital Transition and Telecoms.
An enriched application.
In addition, TousAntiCovid has also been enriched with several practical components.
Travel certificates can be downloaded from the app, a link has been set up to find the laboratories where to be tested.
To this was added a “latest news” section.
This Friday morning, the subject put forward relates to the measures related to containment with some useful details to navigate.
And new features should continue to be implemented, starting next week.
More generally, new functions should arrive every two weeks.
Other vectors helped popularize the principle of the application, including the implementation of reminder books in restaurants (which were still open): by leaving their name and phone number visible to everyone .
Consumers quickly understood the value of a much more privacy-friendly application.
In addition, many applications dedicated to restaurateurs have emerged in France and other countries, with many slippages, in particular, sales of personal data.
For its part, TousAntiCovid is built on the same foundations as StopCovid.
The application records proximity contacts, contacts which are in reality encrypted, anonymized and changing identifiers every fifteen minutes.
It is not possible for a third party to know who has met whom or where.
Even though there is no such thing as zero risk, it is very low.
Finally, the critics who reproach it for not being compatible with the applications of other countries must also realize that there is less travel.
However, all is not yet perfect.
TousAntiCovid needs to be running all the time to be effective, so it reduces the battery life of smartphones.
It is also not accessible to people who do not have recent equipment.
