With the Luca app, contact details for follow-up should be registered more quickly and forwarded to the health department.
The district office is using the app with immediate effect.
District
- “Definitely better than the paper mess,” says Peter Kuchler, district chairman of the Hotel and Restaurant Association (Dehoga), to the news that the Weilheim-Schongau health department is now using the so-called Luca app for contact tracking. When the restaurants will be allowed to reopen is in the stars - Kuchler hopes for Whitsun -; But there is no question for him that the data of all guests must still be registered by the hosts. An app instead of filling out paper lists is certainly a relief for everyone involved.
Nevertheless, the enthusiasm for Dehoga is limited.
The Luca app is controversial.
Among other things, data protection is also criticized by experts.
And: "We actually have our own app called 'Can I go in'", explains Kuchler.
That would have been preferred.
“The main club's recommendation is to wait and see how the Luca app will be accepted.
We don't have an opening perspective anyway. ”That is currently the main problem in the industry.
The Luca app
The state government has acquired the
state license for the Luca app
.
Therefore,
citizens, companies, organizations and authorities
in the Weilheim-Schongau district can
use
the app
free of charge
.
Users enter their data once and the app creates a
QR code
.
This can be scanned in by restaurateurs, business owners or event organizers, for example.
The app automatically creates a personal contact and visit history and enables
encrypted contact data to be sent to the health department in the
event of infection
.
Luca can also be used without a smartphone.
Further information is available on the Internet at www.luca-app.de.
Traceability as an advantage of the Luca app
Any aid that helps people to move around safely in retail and get the pandemic under control is fine with her, says Monika Uhl from Pro-Innenstadt Penzberg.
Above all, the traceability of contacts is a great advantage of the app.
This is also emphasized by Dr.
Stefan Günther, head of the health department: The Luca app is a relief for the investigators.
"The more citizens, but also companies, use the Luca app, the easier it is to trace contact persons."
For Monika Uhl, on the other hand, the focus is not on reducing the administrative burden.
That is currently limited anyway.
Testing is certainly useful - "but for retail it is hell".
Nobody would shop.
Splash already has the Luca app
Andreas Kosian from the Schongau swimming pool "Plantsch" had already advertised the Luca app in the past few weeks. "I am very happy that this effective tool for breaking chains of infection is finally gaining acceptance for us," he says. It is important that the app has established itself nationwide so that the tracking of infection chains also works across national borders. Colleagues from the catering industry had Kosian explain the system to them on Wednesday. "So the interest already seems to be there."
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