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StopCovid , the controversial French government mobile phone application that tracks contacts to alert of possible coronavirus infections, clicks three weeks after its launch.

The app, which can be downloaded from the Apple App Store and Google Play Store for Android, has not raised much enthusiasm among the French since it launched on June 2.

The application has been downloaded by 1.9 million French , equivalent to 3% of the population, but only 1.8% have activated StopCovid and its Bluetooth tracking system. In addition, some 450,000 users have uninstalled the application after downloading it. Others have failed to activate it so far. The StopCovid figures are very low compared to Germany: 10 million Germans have downloaded Corona-Warn-App , the application of the German Government.

StopCovid is a 'contact tracing' application that works with Bluetooth. It allows users who have tested positive for Covid-19 to alert through the application, anonymously, to other users with whom they have been in close contact so that they confine themselves at home and do the test with the in order to slow down the chain of infections.

This 'app' automatically registers all the people with whom the user has been in contact in the last 15 days less than a meter away and for more than 15 minutes , for example, on public transport or in a restaurant .

In order for it to work, the two intersecting users must have downloaded the app and have Bluetooh activated. The data will be kept for 14 days , the estimated incubation time for Covid-19.

The results of the first three weeks of StopCovid have been quite disappointing: only 68 French people have declared in the application to have tested positive after testing. And the application has only sent 14 notifications to users indicating that they have been in close contact with a person who has tested positive for covid-19 and who has notified the system.

Useful for a second wave

Cédric O , French Secretary of State for Digital Economy, has recognized it: "Today, given the weakness of the epidemic, the usefulness of the application is relative . " Despite this initial failure, the French government plans to maintain StopCovid, considering that the contact tracking application can be very useful if there is a second wave of coronavirus in France in the coming months.

The app has been widely criticized by civil rights advocates , who see a threat to individual liberties and a first step towards a society under constant surveillance via mobile phones.

France is the third European country with the highest number of deaths from coronavirus (29,666 deaths), behind the United Kingdom (43,011) and Italy (34,675). Spain is in fourth place with 28,325 deaths, according to the count by the Johns Hopkins University in the United States.

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