Is the bet of the TousAntiCovid application about to be successful?

After the chaotic launch of StopCovid in June, the new version has had some success.

More than one in ten French people have now installed TousAntiCovid.

Result, the number of notifications has exploded for ten days.

Better late than never: long criticized for its uselessness, the TousAntiCovid application, a new version of StopCovid available since October 22, is taking its revenge.

The application for tracing contact cases of Covid-19 patients passed the 7 million downloads mark on Monday.

When the update was launched, only 2.6 million French people had it installed on their phone.

A popularity almost tripled in ten days which gently makes us forget the fiasco of the first version.

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The number of notifications multiplied by 6 in ten days

With very precisely 7.1 million downloads on Monday at the end of the day, TousAntiCovid is installed on the phone of more than 10% of French people.

We are still not at the level of the United Kingdom (16 million downloads) and Germany (18 million) but the application is progressing well and, above all, at a steady pace.

After a jump of 500,000 downloads on the day of the launch of the update, it followed a progression curve which accelerated with the reconfinement (3.5 million downloads since the announcements of Emmanuel Macron).

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The change can also be seen in the number of alerts notified to users who have had risky contact with a patient.

In total, there have been 4,200, of which 80% have been sent in the last ten days.

This is logical because the number of patients who have declared themselves in the TousAntiCovid application, by means of a QR code provided with the positive test, has also increased: it has increased from 12,000 on October 22 to 30,000 today. hui.

Awareness and promotion campaign

How to explain this success when StopCovid had hardly mobilized the crowds?

First, the application has become more useful since you can directly download your exit certificate, a new very practical feature for containment.

And then the government is carrying out an intensive promotional campaign in the media, this time aided by epidemiologists.

We also see posters encouraging it to be activated in certain stores ...

It is together that we will succeed in defeating the virus.



Remember to activate the application #TousAntiCovid when you are in a store.

# covid19pic.twitter.com / 8z12495sX0

- Carrefour (@CarrefourFrance) October 27, 2020

Finally, there was undoubtedly an awareness, initially with the curfew and then even more with the re-containment.

The health situation is serious, the number of hospitalizations and patients in intensive care due to the coronavirus has jumped in recent weeks.

In this context, downloading TousAntiCovid is a small gesture, but a gesture that can help.