Immuni App, Patuanelli: it's very useful, let's download it

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05 October 2020 "The Immuni app is a simple and very important tool to fight Covid: it warns users that they have been in contact with people who are positive about the virus, and it does so in full respect of privacy. It costs citizens nothing, but it helps to protect themselves and others. Let's download it all. "

So on Facebook the Minister of Economic Development, Stefano Patuanelli.

Meanwhile, Professor Andrea Crisanti, full professor of microbiology at the University of Padua, speaking of the Immuni app, said: "I downloaded it. I think it is useful, but to make it work you need to reach 80-90% of adhesions. , we are very far". 

A desirable advance, 

, with the update of the number of people who have downloaded the app.

As of 5 October, there were over 7 million downloads, with 5,870 notifications sent and 357 users who tested positive.

Confesercenti also counts on

as an aid to avoid further closures: "The increase in infections worries everyone, but the solution

cannot always and only involve the closure of businesses. In this way we end up to give the coup de grace to bars and restaurants and put thousands of families in further difficulty ", says Giancarlo Banchieri, president of Fiepet Confesercenti, commenting on the indiscretions on the Dpcm

" Well, therefore, the generalized extension of the use of masks and the strengthening of the Immuni app, but restrictive action on public establishments only where and when necessary. "