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Half a million people downloaded the Stayaway Covid application, which allows infected contacts to be traced, the Undersecretary of State and Health, Jamila Madeira, announced today.
“We once again emphasize the need and usefulness of Portuguese accession [à aplicação]“, said the minister in the press conference of the pandemic balance COVID-19 In Portugal.
The mobile application, launched on Tuesday in Porto in the presence of the Prime Minister, António Costa, allows users to track, quickly and anonymously and through physical proximity between smartphones, the networks of contagion by Covid-19, informing users that have been, in the last 14 days, in the same space as someone infected with the new coronavirus. Its installation is voluntary.
At the time, the head of government considered that installing the Stayaway Covid application on mobile phones is a “civic duty” to stop the pandemic until there is a vaccine.
“Understand that it is a civic duty to download this app and report if a positive result is diagnosed.”Said António Costa, at the event attended by the Minister of Health, Marta Temido.
However, the consumer protection organization Deco Proteste has placed reservations about the installation of this application on mobile phones, invoking the possibility of improper and undeclared use of personal data by Google and Apple.
The Covid-19 pandemic has already caused at least 869,718 dead and infected more than 26.3 million people in 196 countries and territories, according to an evaluation carried out by the French agency AFP.
In Portugal, 1,833 people out of 59,457 confirmed who died, according to the most recent bulletin of the General Directorate of Health.
The disease is transmitted by a new coronavirus detected in late December in Wuhan, a city in central China.
After Europe succeeded China as the center of the pandemic in February, the American continent is now the one with the most confirmed cases and the most deaths.
