Portugal with almost 1,300 daily cases! Have you installed the application?

Portugal once again exceeded a thousand cases of new daily infections (more specifically 1,278). The number is not exactly surprising given the evolution of the disease in Portugal, although it is not desirable. The number of hospitalizations also grew and exceeded 800.

The fact that it has exceeded 1,000 cases a day makes it difficult to break the chains of transmission. However, the StayAway COVID app can be of great help.

Speaking to Lusa, Ricardo Mexia, president of the National Association of Public Health Physicians, said that the fact that we are already in four digits calls into question the ability to break chains of transmission, which makes it increasingly difficult for “already overburdened” clinicians Make sure all contacts are made on active surveillance.
For Ricardo Mexia, exceeding a thousand infections per day "is a more psychological than epidemiological barrier" since there is no quantification that puts a red line in the thousand cases, although he recognizes that on a day-to-day basis it can be problematic.  especially due to the epidemiological research work carried out by public health doctors, who complain about the lack of resources for the workload.
Breaking the chains of transmission of COVID-19!  Have you installed the application?
Apps are not a solution for COVID-19, but they can help control potential outbreaks.  The Portuguese STAYAWAY COVID application is available for Android and iOS and the main objective is to quickly break the chains of contagion.  By alerting contacts who have been infected, it is easier and faster to identify potential new ones.

Remember that the STAYAWAY app detects physical proximity between smartphones and informs users that they have been in the same space as someone infected with the new coronavirus in the last 14 days.  No record of infected ID or smartphone information!

In summary…

STAYAWAY COVID app is safe
GPS information is not used
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 application is a voluntary installation.
No registration required
The infected person can decide whether or not to alert other users.

Given the current scenario, in which there was no worsening of mortality and in which the health services continue to have the capacity to treat and hospitalize serious cases, Ricardo Mexia discards the need for new measures, such as a new confinement, to be adopted in some countries.
Portugal returned this Thursday to overcome the barrier of 1,000 daily COVID-19 infections, reaching 1,278 cases, according to the epidemiological bulletin of the General Directorate of Health (DGS).  Since the beginning of the pandemic in March, this is the second highest number of cases of infection.  The highest was on April 10 with 1,516.
The application has already been downloaded more than 1 million 300 thousand times.