Contact Tracing App

• ‘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
  
• Alberta contact-tracing app has been used in just 32 COVID-19 cases to date

  AB Trace Together has been used to track 32 positive cases and identify 141 close contacts, meaning it's been used in about 0.028 per cent of cases.

  Canada

  Jan 14, 2021
  
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• ABTraceTogether app has been used to track just 19 cases of COVID-19

  Alberta's COVID-19 contact-tracing app, which has been downloaded 268,064 times and cost $625,000, has only been used to track close contacts of 19 positive cases since it launched in May.

  Tech

  Nov 17, 2020
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• ‘We haven’t made a final decision’ on federal COVID-19 app, Alberta premier says

  When asked about bringing the federal COVID-19 app to Alberta, the premier said AB Trace Together is more efficient and aligns with the province's contact-tracing system.

  Canada

  Nov 2, 2020
• ‘Not the year to have a Halloween party’ due to COVID-19: Nenshi

  Mayor Naheed Nenshi and Calgary Emergency Management Agency (CEMA) chief Tom Sampson urged Calgarians to slow to the spread of COVID-19 over Halloween.

  Health

  Oct 28, 2020
• AHS actively recruiting more contact tracers as COVID-19 cases in Alberta climb

  Alberta currently has about 800 contact tracers -- including full time, part time, redeployed and casual staff -- and it wants to hire more.

  Health

  Oct 27, 2020
• University of Saskatchewan professor raises questions over untraceable coronavirus cases

  The province's data shows about 30 per cent of all of the coronavirus cases in Saskatchewan are untraceable.

  Canada

  Sep 10, 2020
• Canadian military asks troops to use government’s COVID Alert app

  Chief of defence staff Gen. Jonathan Vance painted the app as one way Canadian soldiers can ``be a tremendous force for good."

  Canada

  Sep 3, 2020
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• Apple, Google building coronavirus tracing tech directly into phone software

  The move could make it much easier for people in the U.S. to get the tool on their phone even if their local public health agency hasn't built its own compatible app.

  Tech

  Sep 2, 2020
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• Hearings on Quebec contact tracing app raise privacy concerns

  Questions continue to pile up over the government's COVID-19 tracking app.

  Health

  Aug 13, 2020