French virus tracing app flops with only 14 alerts

Since the StopCovid app’s launch, 68 people informed the platform they had been infected and only 14 users were alerted that they were now at risk because of their contacts with these people, France’s digital affairs minister Cedric O said. — Reuters

PARIS: France's much-heralded new phone app for tracking coronavirus cases has only alerted 14 people that they were at risk of infection since its launch three weeks ago, the digital affairs minister said June 23.

The StopCovid app keeps track of users who have been in close proximity of one another over a two-week period. If any become infected, they inform the platform, which alerts the others.