The new epidemic control application: Tousanticovid.

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DAMIEN MEYER / AFP

The “TousAntiCovid” application, the government's new weapon against the coronavirus epidemic, experienced technical problems Thursday evening.

Everything was back to normal overnight, said the Secretary of State for Digital Transition Cédric O.

"There was too great an influx of people at the same time on the application", at the time of the press conference of the Prime Minister on Thursday, and as a result "the systems have struggled to hold", he said. he explained during an interview on France2.

StopCovid downloaded 2.6 million times

It is now again possible to "activate without problem" the application, he added, in order to be informed in the event of contact with a person positive for the coronavirus, to have information on the circulation of the virus. around you or to know the screening locations.

This new version replaces StopCovid which had been downloaded only 2.6 million times since the beginning of June, much less than the British and German applications, cited as an example by the French government, which mention 15 to 20 million downloads in these two countries. .

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