“The SwissCovid app is no longer of much use”
The designer of the tracking app developed at EPFL questions its effectiveness. He is not the only one, the FOPH will nevertheless maintain it.
Several studies indicate that the app only identified between 1 and 2% of cases between January and April 2021.
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A quick search on the internet is enough to convince yourself of this: difficult, since the start of the health crisis, to find a more ardent defender of the SwissCovid contact tracing application than Marcel Salathé.
But since the relaxation of the measures and, above all, the end of the quarantines recently announced by the Federal Council, the former member of the Confederation’s Covid task force has put down his pilgrim’s staff. He no longer seeks to convince of the merits of the application supposed to warn users who have rubbed shoulders with the virus a little too closely. On the contrary.