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Spain already has its contact tracing app activated in several autonomous communities and hopes it will be ready throughout the territory before September 15. It has taken a while, but the Government of Spain is already using this instrument to improve contact tracing rates. This measure is in addition to President Sánchez's announcement to put 2,000 military trackers at the disposal of the autonomies. At the end of July, it was learned thanks to a study by the Carlos III Health Institute that Spain was only able to trace 3 contacts on average for each case of coronavirus, as reported by the EFE agency . Contact tracing is essential to combat a disease like COVID-19 , in which the number of asymptomatic people and carriers is very high.
Developed by the multinational Indra for about 330,000 euros, RadarCOVID has registered in its first days operating more than 2 million downloads between those made from the Google Play Store (Android) and the Apple App Store (on iPhone phones). Although these figures do not mean how many apps there are correctly activated right now. Read more: The real challenge with Lithuania Mobile Number List RadarCOVID, the contact tracing app, is setting it up: less tech-savvy users will have trouble getting it to work RadarCOVID uses a protocol from Apple and Google with which phones send codes to nearby mobile phones. If someone tests positive for coronavirus, their community will give them a key that they will have to enter to confirm their case in the app.
All phones that the infected person came across will receive an anonymous alarm so that their users know that they have been exposed to possible contagion. Many headlines have detailed that these types of applications would only stop the pandemic if they are used by 60% of the population. An article in Technology Review , the magazine of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), spoke with the researchers of the paper from which this data came out, who clarified that even using 10% or 20% of the population would help. not to eradicate, but to stop infections.