COVID-19 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
  
• COVID Alert app cost feds $20M but results ‘did not meet expectations’: new data

  The relatively low number of Canadians who have used the app has led to disappointing results, according to Dr. Esli Osmanlliu of the McGill University Health Centre.

  Canada

  Jul 5, 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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• Public health officials encourage Nova Scotians to download COVID Alert app, use it properly

  To date, Health Canada reports 5.3 million Canadians have downloaded the COVID-19 Alert application.

  Health

  Nov 20, 2020
• Quebecers debate downloading COVID Alert app

  There is debate in Quebec over whether or not to download the COVID Alert application.

  Canada

  Oct 8, 2020
• How does Canada’s coronavirus tracing app work?

  Mark Crowley says the app basically functions using Bluetooth connections and random codes which are generated and stored in your phone.

  Crime

  Aug 10, 2020