Alert App

• Attempt to improve COVID Alert app stalls for lack of interest by provinces

  New data provided to Global News shows usage of the COVID Alert app declined in 2021 even as Health Canada tried to improve its functionality and increase its uptake.

  Health

  Dec 29, 2021
  
• ‘A lot of blame to go around’: Health expert says governments not co-operating on COVID-19 app

  A new advisory panel report points to key reasons why so many Canadians may not be using the COVID Alert app correctly.

  Canada

  Mar 20, 2021
  
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• 96% of Canadians who test positive for coronavirus aren’t using COVID Alert app properly

  Less than four per cent of Canadians who tested positive for COVID-19 have used the federal COVID Alert app to warn people of possible exposure to the virus.

  Canada

  Mar 17, 2021
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• B.C.’s top doctor says COVID-19 app would ’cause more concern’ if activated in the province

  Provincial Health Officer Dr. Bonnie Henry says British Columbia has been pushing back against the federal COVID-19 app because 'we believe [it] would cause more concern and frustration.'

  Health

  Oct 27, 2020
• 20 million Canadians still don’t have full access to the COVID Alert app. Why?

  Bureaucratic back and forth could be to blame for the slow rollout of Canada's COVID-19 alert app in some provinces and territories.

  Politics

  Oct 1, 2020