Dec 27, 2021 11:15:00

It turns out that only 869 people are positively registered monthly for the new corona notification app that invested more than 1.7 billion yen

It was widely reported that the new Coronavirus Contact Confirmation App (COCOA) used in Japan has

a problem that notifications are not sent and a problem that it is forcibly terminated. Contact confirmation apps like COCOA are being developed and used in countries around the world, but the Canadian contact confirmation app ' COVID Alert ' was developed with an investment of '20 million Canadian dollars (about 1,785 million)'. Nevertheless, it is used only by 869 people a month. '

With cases surging and new contact tracing policies, what happened to the COVID Alert app? --CityNews Toronto
https://toronto.citynews.ca/2021/12/24/covid-alert-app-contact-tracing-omicron/

COVID Alert Canadian government 20 million Canadian dollars invested was developed iOS and Android in for the contact confirmation application, it has been downloaded 6.7 million times or more to article created time, is to be operating at 310 million units of smartphone I am.

After confirming how to use COVID Alert published by Health Canada, it is stated that a person diagnosed as positive for new coronavirus must enter the one-time key by himself in order to confirm contact correctly with COVID Alert. It has been. However, a spokeswoman for the Canadian Ministry of Health, Alex Beattie, told Canadian news media City News that '869 positives entered the one-time key in November 2021.' CityNews pointed out that '18,900 cases were confirmed in Ontario alone between November 1, 2021 and December 1, 2021,' and the number of positives registered for COVID Alert is small. It reports too much current situation.

'The Government of Canada recommends the use of COVID Alert for vaccinated people,' said Beattie. 'COVID is currently under research for vaccines and there are uncertainties about mutant strains. Alert is a useful tool in the fight against the new coronavirus, 'he said, calling for the use of COVID Alert.

◆ Situation in Japan

In Japan, it was reported that only three people had been registered for infection by July 8, 2020 after COCOA was released on June 19, 2020. When I checked the usage status of COCOA at the time of writing the article, the number of positive registrations reached 40,515 by December 24, 2021 ...

As of December 26, 2021, the number of positives in Japan reached 1,731,515, and it can be seen that the number of positive registrations with COCOA is only about 2.3% of the number of positives.

At the time of writing the article, it is essential to install COCOA for large-scale events. For example, in the notes of Comic Market 99 scheduled to be held from December 30, 2021 to December 31, 2021, 'If you have a smartphone, install the new Coronavirus Contact Confirmation App (COCOA) of the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare in advance. Please always operate and carry it. '