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Thursday 17 December 2020
Positive tests are often not shared
Montgomery: warning app doesn’t do the job
Almost all laboratories in Germany are now networked with the Corona warning app, which has been downloaded more than 24 million times. However, the president of World Doctors sees a major weak point. Because only half of the users who have been infected warn others about the application.
Due to strict data protection regulations in Germany, World Doctors President Frank Ulrich Montgomery considers the Corona warning app to be a “good tool” but “does not serve its purpose”. “So I think the app won’t help us right now,” he told ntv.
Specifically, the voluntariness with which users can provide their data is a problem for monitoring: “If you have a positive corona test, you are not obliged to enter it in the app. It is known that half of the people who use the application and they tested positive do not enter this in the application. This means that other contacts who also have this application cannot be warned and protected. about the structure of this application “.
However, work should continue on the application. “In the long term and for the next pandemic, which will definitely come at some point, here we need restrictive data protection regulations, but politically they want to be discussed very carefully.”
Half a year after its launch, the Corona Warning app was downloaded more than 24 million times. The federal government called on users Wednesday to share positive test results more consistently. More than 130,000 users have done so so far, which corresponds to about 54 percent, said government spokesman Steffen Seibert. He pointed out that the information was transmitted under a pseudonym, which means that the communicator could not be identified by other users.
Meanwhile, 96 percent of established labs are connected to the warning app, as well as clinical labs and state public labs, Seibert said. Since the app was launched, more than 5.6 million test results have been transmitted digitally from labs.
