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Prime Minister António Costa called on Monday for everyone to install the Portuguese detection application to contact tracking(contact tracking), Stayaway Covid. “I call on everyone now to download on their mobile phones and for everyone to show solidarity to warn all the people with whom they have been in contact that they may have been infected,” said the politician at the National Conference of the Socialist Party , in Coimbra. In addition, he warned that he will install an application: “It is a civic duty for everyone and it is a civic duty that I be the first to lead by example.“.
At the end of May, the prime minister had already said, still in a preliminary stage of the app development process, that he was going to install the tracking app. At the time, however, it was not officially known that Stayaway Covid was going to be the government app. At that time, the socialist stated: “The only thing I can say, not as prime minister, but as a citizen, is that when the application exists, I will download it to my mobile phone and authorize, if it is infected, the people who were in my neighborhood were notified ”.
After several hitches and postponements, the Stayaway app was available, by surprise, on Friday in the app stores for the Android (Google) and iOS (Apple) operating systems. Since then, there have been at least 50,000 downloads of the app. The number refers to the information available in the Play Store, Google’s digital application store and, for now, the only official one.
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The Observer contacted the Government and Google, having been directed by the company to the information in the store. The government has not yet released the installation data. So far, Apple hasn’t answered the same question about the number of iOS installations.
The official launch of the app should be this week at a session in Porto that will feature António Costa, the Observer learned. However, the day of the event has yet to be announced.
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INESC TEC (Institute of Engineering, Technology and Computer Science) developed Stayaway in collaboration with the National Cybersecurity Center (CNCS) and with the Institute of Public Health of the University of Porto (ISPUP), Keyruptive and Ubirider. According to this research center, the Government has followed this project through the Ministry of Science, Technology and Higher Education, Economy and Digital Transition and Health.
