Canadian Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland announced this Saturday, October 31, that she was in solitary confinement after receiving a notification from the anti-Covid mobile application.
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Today I was tested for COVID19 after receiving a notification from the COVID Alert app.
I am in quarantine at home while awaiting the results of my screening test
, ”Chrystia Freeland, also Minister of Finance, wrote on Twitter.
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The COVID Alert app is an important tool in our fight against the virus,
” she added, encouraging Canadians to download and use it.
Trudeau isolated in March
The app has been downloaded approximately 4.9 million times since its launch and nearly 3,000 Canadians have reported positive results on it, according to Canadian media.
Entered a second wave of the pandemic since September, Canada recorded this Saturday more than 234,500 cases and 10,136 deaths.
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In March, during the first wave of the coronavirus, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau placed himself in isolation after his wife, Sophie Grégoire-Trudeau, was infected.
Two opposition party leaders, Erin O'Toole of the Conservative Party and Yves-Francois Blanchet of the Bloc Québécois, contracted the virus last September.
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