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The app to stop the infection, which was launched in April (pictured), was withdrawn earlier this year. A new version will be released on Monday. Photo: Heiko Junge / NTB
The National Institute of Public Health (NIPH) hopes that as many people as possible will download the new infection app when it launches Monday. This time, the personal information remains on your phone.
The new app shares the Smittestopp name with its vilified predecessor, which authorities pulled back earlier this year. It’s also the only thing the two apps have in common, the National Institute of Public Health has to believe.
The app will be available before the crown press conference announced by the government on Monday.
Unlike its predecessor, the mobile application developed in Denmark does not use GPS data, does not upload personal information to a central server and will only be used for infection tracking, not for analysis or research.
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The more the better
– The more people use the application, the more efficient it will be. So we hope that as many as possible will consider the app for download when it’s ready Monday in the App Store and Google Play, says Assistant Director Gun Peggy Knudsen at FHI to NTB.
The application is intended for people over 16 years of age and its use is voluntary. You also don’t need to log in, unless you have to report that you have tested positive for coronavirus.
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The program uses only bluetooth technology. Through an ingenious system of digital keys that are stored on your phone and are updated and replaced frequently, the information you enter about the corona infection is shared only when you want it. In the same way, the user will be notified if someone else enters information about the infection and you have been close to each other.
Although a vaccine is on the way and authorities hope to gain control of the coronary pandemic, FHI still believes that an infection application could be important in stopping the spread of the infection in society. And even if Norway starts vaccination on Christmas Eve, it will be a while before everyone gets vaccinated and the virus is safe.
Unstable infection situation
– It will take time before everyone is vaccinated and the infection situation is unstable and can change rapidly. So we need an app like Stop Infection that can complement the other measures and help stop further infection, Knudsen says.
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In Opinion’s Norwegian Corona Monitor survey, 41% of respondents recently answered that they want to use the new infection tracker app. About the same number, 39 percent, responded that they don’t want to use it. The rest replied that they did not know.
Danish IT company Netcompany, which has already developed Danish infectious disease control, was the only company to bid and was tasked with developing the new Norwegian app for digital infection detection.
