According to Cedric O, these figures do not call into question the usefulness of the application and, in particular, with the decrease in the prevalence of the virus.
StopCovid did not report that 14 cases of risk of contamination since its commissioning, said Tuesday the secretary of State to Digital, defending, despite all of the application tracing of contacts against the coronavirus.
StopCovid, installed on a mobile phone, allows a user who is discovered to be contaminated to prevent anonymously to other users that it has crossed recently. But according to the balance sheet given by Cedric O at a press conference, only 68 people have used up to this day the application to prevent the contamination of the people they have crossed. And only 14 users of the application have received an alert message warning them that they have been in contact with such infected persons.
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According to the secretary of State, these figures do not call into question the usefulness of the application and, in particular, with the decrease in the prevalence of the virus. “We try only thirty people per day in Paris today,” he said.
460 000 uninstalling
The number of downloads of the application remains small in comparison with, for example, of Germany, or the equivalent application has been downloaded 10 million times, he acknowledged. According to Cedric O, StopCovid has been downloaded 1.9 million times, but it has been uninstalled, 460, 000 times, or a maximum number of users between 1.4 and 1.5 million throughout the country.
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The difference with the Germany “does not say anything in my personal opinion” of the French application itself, but “says it all probably of our cultural differences, our differences in behavior in the face of the epidemic” and “possibly, the difference in assessment of the behavior of the government during the epidemic,” said Cedric O.
The secretary of State said does not regret any of the choices that have been made on StopCovid, believing that it will find its usefulness if the epidemic picks up. “We are currently in a phase of prevalence is quite low in the epidemic, but everyone is considering” the possibility of a second wave, according to him.
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The secretary of State has also provided figures on the costs of the application, with a monthly cost ranging between a minimum of 80 000 euros in the month of July, and a maximum of 120 000 in December (it hosting and maintenance and development). “This cost will increase” if there is a second wave, said Cedric O. The budget presented provides, in addition to the optional expenses “of support to user support” of 50 000 euros per month, and “deployment-related” of 30 000 euros per month.
