Corona pandemic: Baden-Württemberg is getting out of the Luca app

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Baden-Württemberg is getting out of Luca-App

The start page of a Luca app is displayed on a smartphone screen. Photo: Bernd Weißbrod/dpa/

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The success of the Luca app is crumbling. Health authorities hardly ever access data from the Corona tracking app. After Schleswig-Holstein, another federal state is now allowing the contract to expire.

The state of Baden-Württemberg no longer wants to use the Luca app for contact tracing in the future.

The contract with the private operator of the software will not be extended beyond the end of March, a spokeswoman for the Ministry of Social Affairs of the German Press Agency confirmed on Wednesday in Stuttgart. Baden-Württemberg’s Health Minister Manne Lucha (Greens) wanted to inform the Social Committee on Wednesday afternoon about the government’s expected decision.

Last year, many restaurant owners and event organizers used the Luca app to record the contacts of their visitors, as required by law, without paperwork. Now people should use the state and free Corona warning app. However, the Luca app should continue to be used until the end of March. A recent hearing in the southwest revealed that many health authorities consider the Luca app to be superfluous and too inaccurate.

The Luca app was launched with great expectations a good year ago. However, the system has repeatedly been the subject of fierce criticism. Luca skeptics are particularly bothered by the concept of central data storage. They also doubt that the Luca system can actually support the health authorities effectively.

The contracts with 13 federal states (all except Saxony, Thuringia and North Rhine-Westphalia) have so far had an annual volume of 20 million euros including VAT. Schleswig-Holstein has already given notice.

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