Contact confirmation app It is expected that the correction will take a full week next week. 20:23 on June 26, Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare

The Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare revealed that it will take up to a full week to fix the application due to a problem found in the ``contact confirmation application'' that can be notified if there is a suspicious contact with a person infected with the new coronavirus Did. Contact notifications will not be given until the fix is ​​complete.

The application started operation on 19th of this month, and when the users approach each other for a certain distance and time, they record the data of each other and the users who are found to be infected with the new coronavirus are given the processing number issued by the public health center. If you register in the app, the contact will be notified.

However, since a defect was found immediately after the operation started, the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare is in the process of revising it, and we are suspending the issue of the treatment number to infected persons until the remediation is completed.

The Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare has announced that it will take the next week to finish the amendment. Contact notifications will not be given until the fix is ​​complete.

According to the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare, the app has been downloaded about 4.46 million at 5 pm on the 26th.