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Never helped with the pandemic and now they’re leaving it: Radar goodbye to the care of COVID

  • April 26, 2022
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The Radar COVID application in Spain, commissioned by the Government to Indra in 2020, was created to inform the authorities of SARS-CoV-2 infections and incidentally, prevent infections when

Never helped with the pandemic and now they’re leaving it: Radar goodbye to the care of COVID

The Radar COVID application in Spain, commissioned by the Government to Indra in 2020, was created to inform the authorities of SARS-CoV-2 infections and incidentally, prevent infections when you stay with a positive person for at least 15 minutes. Well, it’s over because maintenance of the application will be abandoned.

Sources from SEDIA (Secretariat of State for Digitization and Artificial Intelligence) confirm to Vozpopuli that the app will soon be out of date. According to the contract given by the government to Indra, the developers of the app, 24 months supportabout to expire.

Radar With COVID, nothing should change with goodbye

Covid Radar Application

The COVID-19 pandemic caught many off guard, and regulations and protocols of action had to be created in haste. In these came the idea to create an application whose purpose is to warn against possible infections. And we use the conditional because in practice the implementation was not as useful as expected.

Radar can be identified as COVID great idea with a crappy app. Only 8% of positives enrolled them in the app, making the app less effective. In the absence of conclusive research into the reasons why they were not saved, the truth is that this was not always an intuitive process and sometimes produced an error that could have a large direct impact on the user’s choice not to save. Save the positives at the end.

As of January 2021, according to the Government’s own data, the application Downloaded 6,808,137 times, 23% of them correspond to the iOS application and 77% to the Android application. An application with a total cost to the Administrator, including initial development and subsequent maintenance. 4.2 million €

As noted in Vozpópuli, the Government considers the implementation to be amortized as the pandemic progresses. We don’t know if the app will be removed from the App Store and Google Play, which is expected at this point. Be that as it may, one thing is certain Radar COVID will no longer be updatedthus it loses its effectiveness even though it is almost zero.

Source | Vozpopuli

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