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Starting today, Immuni will detect and report any exposure to the coronavirus including in Germany and Ireland. In fact, the application has activated the interoperability system provided by the European Union to ensure that the different applications for contact tracing can communicate with each other.
In this first phase, the initiative concerns Immuni for Italy, Corona-Warn-App for Germany and COVID tracker for Ireland. The three apps together have around 30 million users, a figure that the governments of the three countries are confident of increasing in the coming weeks. Other countries of the European Union can be added to make the initiative even broader.
Interoperability should make contact tracing more effective, even for people who have spent time abroad. The operation is still more or less similar to that developed in recent months.
For example: Mario downloads Immuni in Italy and Marta does the same with Corona-Warn-App in Germany. Mario makes a trip to Germany and detects a residence time of at least 15 minutes and less than three meters from Marta. Then Mario returns to Italy and meanwhile Marta feels bad: she takes a test, discovers that she is positive for the coronavirus and reports it through her application.
In Italy, Mario receives a notification on Immuni that he has been close to a person who later tested positive, just as he would have been if the contact had occurred in Italy. At this point, Mario can contact the Italian health authorities and receive instructions on how to behave and how long to remain isolated.
Today is an important day in the history of #Immune; Italy is, in fact, the first country, together with Germany and Ireland, to activate interoperability. #UnitiWe are immune #United Against Coronavirus # Stronger together
✅ Download Immuni here ▶ https://t.co/k4vzA5SXUa pic.twitter.com/ZhxXyvFRNr– Immuni application (@immuni_app) October 19, 2020
The project coordinated by the European Union should make it possible to extend contact tracking through smartphones, although much will depend on the options of other member states to develop and maintain applications for this purpose. Immuni has recently reached 9 million downloads and the new DPCM requires ASLs to upload user reports, overcoming difficulties encountered so far in some regions.
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