The new version of the Covid-19 tracking application, renamed "TousAntiCovid", was downloaded by 4.2 million people in France five days after its launch.
A figure that far exceeds the 2.6 million downloads since the beginning of June of StopCovid.
The new version of the Covid-19 tracking application, renamed "TousAntiCovid", was downloaded by 4.2 million people in France five days after its launch, announced Tuesday the Minister Delegate in charge of Autonomy, Brigitte Bourguignon.
"With this compliant update, 4.2 million French people have downloaded this application to date," she told the Assembly during the government questioning session.
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Its function remains to warn its users when they have crossed paths with another user infected with the coronavirus.
Renamed "TousAntiCovid", the application replaces StopCovid which had been downloaded only 2.6 million times since the beginning of June - much less than the British and German applications, cited as an example by the French government, which evoke 15 to 20 million downloads in these two countries.
Its function remains to warn its users when they have crossed in the last two weeks, within a meter and for more than 15 minutes, another user infected by the coronavirus - and who declared it in the system .
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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.