Canada is expected to soon announce the closure of the COVID Alert application, launched during the first months of the pandemic, according to “The Globe and Mail”. The free COVID Alert application, which allows you to be warned in the event of potential exposure to the coronavirus, or to report a positive result to a test for COVID-19, should be removed by Ottawa.
This is what two sources told the newspaper “The Globe and Mail”, while an increasingly mixed interest in the application has been observed over the months. Vaccines and rapid antigen tests would have gradually got the better of this tool.
To publicize the app, Ottawa had spent $17.5 million. As of February 1, 2022, nearly 6.9 million Canadians, out of a total of 38 million, have downloaded the COVID Alert app, across nine participating provinces and territories. Only 57,704 codes declaring a positive test for COVID-19 had been identified by this date.