The pandemic is over. Maybe not completely, but it happened. We have overcome the worst, at least for now, and although the virus is here to stay, we have normalized its existence. The bans related to our security, the extraordinary measures approved two years ago, are lifted and the application that was created ex-teacher to control the contagion, the blind was lowered. Radar COVID is already history.
It is possible that you only learned about it by reading the news, since the application has demonstrated during its many months of life that its effectiveness is very low. Partly because we didn’t use it ourselves, partly because the system wasn’t prepared for it and running the app didn’t help. It was difficult to get a contagion code and almost everything depended on the will of the patient. Bad business. But now it doesn’t matter because the app is closed.
Save space, uninstall Radar COVID
Shortly after its launch at the beginning of last year 2021, the government reported that Radar COVID had reached 7 million downloads. 7 million Spaniards had the application on their mobile phone or, at least, had downloaded it once before deleting it. A reduced percentage for the large number of smartphones in circulation in Europe.
As we said before, the process of identifying users as contagious was not easy. We had to ask for a code when we were notified of a positive, and not all the analysis centers were ready to give it. Then we entered that code into the app, and then the contacts we had on the previous days were alerted that they needed to take the test. But the process was cumbersome, inefficient and it was going nowhere.
As noted, it’s not just that few codes were given for the app at the time of reporting positives, it’s that only 8 out of 100 of those codes ended up being entered into the app. Thus, any possibility of making an effective layout is gone. of the line of contagion. Radar COVID has never proven its usefulness in its almost two years of life.
The Radar COVID app went out of business today after a long history of handling positive contacts in #covid In Europe. Thank you very much to all the users who trusted us #RadarCovid pic.twitter.com/sRRteeGtBh
— RadarCOVID (@AppRadarCovid) October 9, 2022
Official maintenance of Radar COVID ceased last April. The government has reported through SEDIA (State Secretariat for Digitization and Artificial Intelligence) that work on the app has been completed. Now, months later, it’s reported that it’s all over. Radar COVID will be nothing but a memory of when we tried in vain to control the COVID-19 pandemic from our mobile phones. Hope to do better next time. You can uninstall it.
