- With the arrival of Spring and the start of the school holidays, there is a great temptation not to respect confinement.
- The Covimoov app, which provides information on the evolution of the epidemic around the place where we are, noted an increase in the number of trips between Thursday, March 26 and Thursday, April 2.
- "Since last Monday, we have seen a slight relaxation in tourist areas, but also more trips to certain areas which are probably also explained by a resumption of economic activity", explains Antoine Couret, who developed the Covimoov app .
" Stay home ! This is the message hammered by the public authorities since March 17 to avoid the spread of the coronavirus and an overload of patients in French hospitals. But after three weeks of confinement, several indicators from the mobile applications of smartphones would seem to show that the movements of the French are increasing.
According to data from the Covimoov application, which calculates the rate of compliance with confinement by combining the analysis of several data, including the movements of people in an area measured on March 26 and April 2, confinement would be less and less respected. With the arrival of Spring and the start of the school holidays, the temptation not to respect confinement, which is nevertheless the most effective weapon to prevent the spread of the virus, is in fact growing…
Are there more trips from the French?
The Covimoov interface, developed by Geo4cast, provides information on compliance with confinement (based on the movements of people in the area measured by a GPS guidance company, and by the application itself), on sales of drugs for respiratory ailments in surrounding pharmacies, and the occupancy rate of resuscitation services in surrounding hospitals.
From all this data, the application was able to establish a map of metropolitan France for Thursdays March 26 and April 2. The travel rate for Wednesday, March 26 shows that most of the departments of France range from 0 to 36% only compared to a normal situation (24 trips per week). But the same card on Thursday, April 2, displays much higher rates, ranging from 36 to 46% of movement compared to the usual average, notes the Journal du Dimanche.
EXCLUSIVE. Respect for confinement: the French relax
(on the map, trips by car recorded by the Covimoov application) https://t.co/6qo5Ija9IU pic.twitter.com/PEaXdrAgR9
"Since last Monday, there has been a slight relaxation in tourist areas, but also more trips to certain areas which are probably also explained by a recovery in economic activity", explains Antoine Couret, president of the company Geo4cast, who developed the Covimoov application and president of the France IA hub, which brings together public officials, researchers and companies working on artificial intelligence.
France, a bad student in confinement?
Despite the data published by Covimoov, France appears to be a good student in compliance with the confinement rules. According to data released by Google Maps for France on March 29, the effects of containment are clearly measurable. Attendance at places of leisure and consumption (shops, restaurants, cinemas, etc.) - closed since March 15 - fell by 88%. Similarly, frequentation of places of public transport (tram, metro, stations ...) fell by 87%. Much smaller declines in the UK, which took late action, the United States, which leaves it up to each state, and Sweden, which refuses to impose containment, says report on mobility in 131 countries published Friday by Google.
The prospect of using our smartphones and their location data to fight against the coronavirus is no longer taboo in France today, despite concerns about its potentially invasive privacy. Prime Minister Édouard Philippe considered on Wednesday evening in the National Assembly the possibility of a mobile application, downloadable on a voluntary basis, which would make it possible to be informed if one has encountered a person affected by the virus. Covimoov, an application deemed less intrusive in terms of privacy than certain other apps, has already said it is "ready", according to Antoine Couret.
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