THE QUESTION. After the National Assembly, the Senate gave its approval on Wednesday to the deployment of StopCovid (consultative, non-binding votes). The subject of fierce debate for several weeks, the application should finally be available for download next Monday. His goal? Identify the contacts of contagious patients in order to isolate them, test them and provide them with medical follow-up as quickly as possible. A strategy adopted from the beginning of the epidemic by certain Asian countries such as South Korea, in a form that is much more intrusive, however, because it uses geolocation.
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In addition to concerns about attacks on individual liberty, some fear that the application is just an ineffective gadget. So StopCovid, eye powder or a useful technological tool to control the epidemic?
CHECK. At this time, it is impossible to say whether StopCovid will help control the epidemic. Indeed, its effectiveness will depend
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