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\n\tThe Newfoundland and Labrador authorities says its well being minister was mistaken when he instructed reporters this week that Ottawa “gave up” on the COVID Alert app.<\/p>\n
\n\tAn announcement Thursday from the provincial Well being Division stated Well being Minister John Haggie “had not been offered the newest data” on using the COVID Alert app when he made these feedback.<\/p>\n
\n\tHaggie stated Wednesday the federal authorities had stopped supporting the smartphone utility due to low uptake.<\/p>\n
\n\tThe COVID Alert app was launched in July 2020 and permits anybody who exams constructive for COVID-19 to enter a one-time key code that can set off contact notifications to telephones which were close by.<\/p>\n
\n\tThe Well being Division’s assertion says the COVID Alert app is energetic within the province and although officers don’t at all times us it, it “stays one of many instruments within the toolbox” utilized by the province to assist curb the unfold of COVID-19.<\/p>\n
\n\tThe federal authorities’s web site for the app reveals it has been downloaded greater than 6.7 million occasions and that customers have inputted greater than 37,300 keys.<\/p>\n
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