The TousAntiCovid application -

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Five days after a technically complicated start, the TousAntiCovid application has been downloaded by 4.2 million people in France, the Deputy Minister for Autonomy, Brigitte Bourguignon, announced on Tuesday.

“With this compliant update, 4.2 million French people have downloaded this application to date,” she told the Assembly during the questioning session to the government.

Still far from the English and Germans

This Covid-19 tracking application, which replaces the StopCovid flop, downloaded only 2.6 million times since the beginning of June, much less than the British and German applications, which evoke 15 to 20 million downloads in these two country.

Its function remains to warn its users when they have crossed in the last two weeks, within a meter and for more than fifteen minutes, another user contaminated by the coronavirus (and who declared it in the system ).

The application, which has undergone improvements in form and editorial content to be made more attractive to Internet users, thus offers a real-time news feed on the epidemic, as well as figures on the epidemic. use of the app to create a ripple effect and motivation.

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