Another application by the name STAYAWAY is “fooling” the Portuguese

The development of the STAYAWAY COVID application took into account multiple situations and scenarios. The English name remains the same from the development process, but according to the information, many Portuguese are installing the wrong application. It is a Spanish application with the name STAYWAY and that has a similar purpose to the Portuguese one, according to the description.

See if you have the correct application installed i.e the Portuguese STAYAWAY COVID application.

It is true that the name, in English, of the Portuguese application has already been the target of some criticism.  However, what was not expected is the existence of a Spanish application with the same name.  According to the description, the application has a similar objective to the Portuguese application, but it is USELESS for the Portuguese.  If you have this app installed, you need to remove it by installing the correct app.  It should be noted that this application is available in the official Android application store.
SPANISH STAYAWAY! Application interface  Take it off, it's useless

The Portuguese application STAYAWAY COVID has already been downloaded 700 thousand times
The Portuguese STAYAWAY COVID app, whose installation is voluntary, allows to identify, quickly and anonymously and by physical proximity, the networks of contagion by Covid-19.  It then informs users that they have been, in the last 14 days, in the same space as someone infected with the new coronavirus.
The STAYAWAY COVID application has already been downloaded by 700,000 Portuguese and has the interface shown in the following images.  As we have already mentioned, this application does not help to cure COVID-19, it does not detect positive cases or identify your phone contacts.  This application helps DGS to identify chains of contagion more quickly, so that close contacts of an infected person can be notified.



				
			



				
			



Remember that…

STAYAWAY COVID app is safe
GPS information is not used
The application is a voluntary installation.
No contacts are identified, that is, the app labels are completely anonymous
There is no record of the app having a negative influence on battery life.
The infected person can decide whether or not to alert other users.
No registration required

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