Covid19 applications – France, Europe, Third Countries

January 16, 2021 Joe Kenehan

This page groups together the various official applications (the equivalent of StopCovid for France) offered by several countries around the world.

Overall:
– Installation, activation and use are voluntary acts.
– Contacting your doctor in the event of an alert on your mobile device will be a voluntary decision.
– It will not be possible to declare oneself falsely ill.
– No census of infected people.
– No identification of areas where patients have moved.
– Data stored provisionally, depending on the country.

Operation:
– Activate Bluetooth on your mobile device to allow the system to identify contacts between users.
– The tracking tool does not use geolocation, the application will no longer have any interest if you cut Bluetooth.
– Bluetooth will identify third-party devices nearby.
– Each mobile device will have encrypted identifiers. These identifiers will change over time to prevent the link between the user and their identifier can be made.
– If, during your outings, you meet people using the same application (with Bluetooth enabled), your mobile device will save their anonymized credentials in the history of the application.
– If you develop symptoms a few days later and you test positive for Covid-19, the laboratory will provide you with a QR-Code that you can import into the application.
– This QR-Code will then allow the application to automatically warn all the users that you have met (within one meter and for more than fifteen minutes) in the previous two weeks.
– Mobile devices of app users will regularly check whether their encrypted credentials are on these lists. If so, they will display an alert.

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Validated by the National Commission for Computing and Freedoms (CNIL).
This application launched by the French government will allow a “follow-up” of cases / contacts in order to notify you that you have met a person who tested positive and thus prevent the spread of Covid-19.
– Additional information: https://www.android-logiciels.fr/stopcovid-france
– Download from the PlayStore: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=fr.gouv.android.stopcovid

The Coronalert app is the main Covid-19 app for Belgium, where it is interconnected with the national health system (Sciensano). It is intended for anyone who lives, works, spends holidays or visits Belgium regularly or for a long period.
It was designed to help break the chains of infection and will notify you of your possible contact with someone who subsequently tests positive for Covid-19.
– Additional information: https://www.android-logiciels.fr/coronalert-belgique
– Download from the PlayStore: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=be.sciensano.coronalert

The Robert Koch Institute (RKI), as a central federal institution in the field of public health and as a national institute of public health, publishes this app for the German Federal Government and the Federal Republic of Germany. The app remembers your encounters with other people, in a decentralized manner, and informs you digitally if you have had contact with people who are obviously infected. At no time does it collect information on the identity of users.
– Additional info: https://www.android-logiciels.fr/corona-warn-app
– Download from the PlayStore: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.rki.coronawarnapp

Use of the app is completely voluntary. When using it, you will be alerted if you have been in close contact with another user of the app who has tested positive for coronavirus. If your test is positive and you enter the unique code sent to you into the app, it will anonymously notify other app users you have been in close contact with.
– Additional info: https://www.android-logiciels.fr/protect-scotland-covid-19
– Download from the PlayStore: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=gov.scot.covidtracker

The data collected by the SwissCovid app is only stored locally on your mobile phone. No personal or geolocation data is transmitted to storage locations or central servers. Therefore, no one can reconstruct with whom and where the contact took place. When the coronavirus crisis is over, or if the application proves ineffective, the system will be disabled. Its use is limited to Switzerland and is subject to Swiss law.
– Additional information: https://www.android-logiciels.fr/swisscovid
– Download from the PlayStore: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ch.admin.bag.dp3t

If you intend to go to Spain, the government of this country requires that you first fill out a health form.
Once this document has been completed, all you need to do is use the QR Code which will then have been automatically generated and show it on your arrival at any Spanish airport. Each form is personal and cannot be transferred and is associated with a single trip.
– Additional information: https://www.android-logiciels.fr/spth-formulaire-covid-19-espagne
– Download from the PlayStore: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.atos.spain.th

This application was designed and is led by the Secretary of State for Digitization and Artificial Intelligence of the Spanish Government.
It helps prevent the spread of the coronavirus (Covid-19).
COVID Radar guarantees security and privacy. It is 100% anonymous, neither your name, nor your phone number, nor your e-mail address will be necessary.
– Additional information: https://www.android-logiciels.fr/radar-covid-espagne
– Download from the PlayStore: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=es.gob.radarcovid

This application aims to help Portugal to follow the evolution of the Covid-19 pandemic. By using it, if you are going to Portugal, it will allow you to stay informed of the risks of exposure thanks to the follow-up of your recent contacts. At no time does it have access to your identity or your personal data.
The application was developed by INESC TEC (Institute of Systems and Computer Engineering, Technology and Sciences of Porto) in coordination with the Ministry of Health of Portugal.
– Additional information: https://www.android-logiciels.fr/stayaway-covid-portugal
– Download from the PlayStore: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=fct.inesctec.stayaway

Provincial and territorial governments are working to make COVID Alert usable across Canada. In some places, it is not yet possible to report Covid-19 diagnoses with this app. It is still useful to activate it, regardless of your region. When people can report a diagnosis, you’ll be notified if you’ve been around them.
The application was developed by Health Canada and the Canadian Digital Service using the private exposure notification framework from Apple and Google.
– Additional information: https://www.android-logiciels.fr/alerte-covid-canada
– Download from the PlayStore: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ca.gc.hcsc.canada.stopcovid

Like the other applications referenced on this page, this version which can be used in Poland will inform you of any contact with a person carrying Covid-19. But it will also give you the option of taking a disease risk assessment test and keeping a health journal.
This assessment test is a simple survey created by doctors. Once the test is complete, the system will check (based on World Health Organization and Sanitary Inspection guidelines) to which risk group your answers belong.
– Download from the PlayStore: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ca.gc.hcsc.canada.stopcovid