The Radar Covid application is launched
The applicationRadar Covid is the official app of the Government of Spain for tracking Coronavirus infections and having successfully passed its testing phase, it is available to the health authorities of the autonomous communities for its development and implementation. The application uses the terminal's Bluetooth connection, through which mobile phones emit and observe anonymous identifiers of other phones that change periodically. When two terminals have been close for 15 minutes or more, at a distance of two meters or less, both store the anonymous identifier issued by the other.
If a user were diagnosed positive for Covid-19 after taking a PCR test, they would decide whether to give their consent so that an anonymous notification can be sent through the health system. In this way, mobile phones that had been in contact with the patient would receive a warning about the risk of possible contagion and instructions on how to proceed would be provided.
It has been developed following the most guaranteeing technical standards with the privacy of users in compliance with all the recommendations prepared by the European Commission. Thus, no person can be identified or located because there is no data recorded and because the entire process takes place on their phone without going to any server. Furthermore, both the use of the app and the communication of a possible contagion will always be voluntary.
Currently, the European Commission is developing the legal and technical framework that makes interoperability possible between applications based on the decentralized model, such as Radar Covid, so that they can continue to function beyond the borders of each State.
Since August 20, the app has already been active in the testing phase in several autonomous communities and once the technical integration process between the application and its health systems was completed, Andalusia, Cantabria, Aragon and Extremadura were the first regions to have the development fully operational. The rest of the autonomous communities are working on adopting the tool and are carrying out the necessary technical work to integrate the application with their health systems to be able to launch it over the next few weeks.
This is the first step in the national implementation plan of the application that already has more than two million downloads in its versions for the Android and iOS operating systems.
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