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COVID-19 Exposure Notifications are disabled in Brazil

by Alexandra Hartman Editor-in-Chief

2023-09-04 16:43:02

As of last March, health regulatory agencies around the world might end support for Exposure Notificationsan APIApplication programming interfaceor application programming interface.”>1 launched in 2020 so that users of iPhones and Android devices were alerted if they had been in contact with someone infected with the new Coronavirus (COVID-19).

Now, as noted by some readers, the Ministry of Health turned off notifications on Brazilso users have been warned regarding this.

As you can see in the screenshots above, the alerts indicate that the iPhone will no longer register nearby devices and that users will not receive alerts regarding possible exposures.

Furthermore, only the last 14 days of records are stored, so exposure data collected earlier will be automatically deleted, also as prompted.

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