Radar COVID shuts down definitively: an ambitious idea that failed
- October 10, 2022
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If the worst phase of the COVID-19 pandemic were to be represented digitally, it would be with the Radar COVID app. More precisely, with the extinct Radar COVID
If the worst phase of the COVID-19 pandemic were to be represented digitally, it would be with the Radar COVID app. More precisely, with the extinct Radar COVID app. And his farewell was advanced a few months ago and now officially not working anymore and even disappeared from Google Play and App Store.
If you still have the application installed on your mobile, in no case will it be lost or have to delete it, but it’s totally pointless to have by not providing any functionality. Therefore, if you want to save some space on your device, it is best to say goodbye to it.
It didn’t protect much before, but now it doesn’t protect anything.
The Radar COVID app has fallen far behind its goals, far from fulfilling its purpose of recording all COVID positives and thus alerting close people and preventing transmission. So what reached almost 7 million downloadsAs stated by the government at the beginning of 2021.
For different reasons, Radar COVID recorded only 8% of positive cases for COVID-19.
The main problem of the application is always registering a code that flags us as positive was complicated.. Either it was hard to get this code from healthcare organizations or there was a direct error doing it (in my experience I can confirm the latter). Then there were those who forgot to register. Thus, only 8 out of 100 positive codes were entered into the application.
Now the pandemic looks much more controlled, although cases continue. We’ve already been able to ignore the mask indoors since April, and there aren’t as many cases as in 2020, although Congress continues to approve the requirement to use it on public transport. Or not unless it’s serious enough to warrant such practice. COVIDRadar.
Well, with this scenario and knowing in advance that the expected support period is 24 months, when entering the application we find a message saying: “Radar COVID ceased operation on 10/9/2022. As of this date, its functions are no longer operational.” So may this app, which is a very good idea and has a very strange execution, rest in peace. Our only hope is that, for the sake of our collective health, we never have to witness a similar device appear again.
Source: Xataka
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