The Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare distributed a modified version on the 18th due to a problem that some users were not notified by the contact confirmation application "COCOA" of the new coronavirus, but it was not automatically notified. It was revealed that a new defect was found, such as a case.
Regarding the contact confirmation application "COCOA", it has been revealed that since September last year, users of Google's basic software "Android" have not been detected or notified that there is a possibility of close contact. I will.
Regarding this, the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare distributed a modified version of the "Android" version of the application on the afternoon of the 18th, but even with this modified version, there are cases where you will not be automatically notified unless you restart regularly. It was revealed that a new defect was found.
In addition, users of the basic software "iOS" for iPhone, who said that they could receive notifications without any influence, pointed out that they did not receive the notifications, so we will continue to clarify the cause.
In the future, the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare and the IT General Strategy Office of the Cabinet Secretariat will work together to manage "COCOA," and will work out recurrence prevention measures by next month while listening to the opinions of IT experts.
Minister of Health, Labor and Welfare Tamura told reporters, "We apologize for the inconvenience and sincerely apologize for any inconvenience.