Despite a very laborious start, has the tracking application intended to fight the coronavirus epidemic finally found its audience? According to the latest figures made public, it seemed that the implementation of the health pass has considerably boosted the number of downloads of the TousAntiCovid app in recent weeks.
At the end of July, the government system accounted for 26.7 million downloads in France, against 17.2 million downloads at the beginning of June.
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The number of notifications on the rise
If the increase in downloads of TousAntiCovid is linked more to the use of the attestation and health pass functions than to the tracing functions via Bluetooth, the positive cases identified and the alerts sent have automatically increased over the months.
According to the data available on TousAntiCovid, since June 2, 2020, nearly 255,816 people have been notified through the application of close contact with a person positive for Covid-19. However, in July alone, more than 50,000 people received a notification from TousAntiCovid, a significant increase in the number of people notified case-contact.
Despite this strong acceleration in France, the situation is far from being equivalent to that in the United Kingdom, where the local tracing application can issue millions of contact case alerts in a few days, even up to cause a pingdemic, that is to say a massive isolation of people case-contact which threatens to paralyze the activity of the country and handicaps its economy.