COVID Alert - Let’s protect each other was a health & fitness app developed by Health Canada | Santé Canada. It was removed from Google Play Jun 15, 2022 and is no longer available for download.
Download Statistics
COVID Alert - Let’s protect each other had been downloaded 2.2 million times before it became unavailable.
User Ratings
COVID Alert - Let’s protect each other was rated 3.81 out of 5 stars, based on 9.3 thousand ratings.
App Information
COVID Alert - Let’s protect each other was free to download. The APK download size was 20.41 MB. The last available version was 1.5.3. The last update was on August 9, 2021.
Technical Requirements
COVID Alert - Let’s protect each other required Android 6.0+ or higher. The app had a content rating of Everyone. The app had been available on Google Play July 2020.
Description
Together, let’s slow the spread of COVID-19. Canada's COVID Alert app notifies you if someone you were near in the past 14 days tells the app they tested positive.
COVID Alert uses Bluetooth to exchange random codes with nearby phones. It does not use or access any location data. COVID Alert works by determining how far away other phones are by the strength of their Bluetooth signal.
Several times a day, COVID Alert checks a list of codes from people who tell the app they tested positive. You’ll get a notification if a code you received matches one of the positive codes.
If you test positive for COVID-19 you’ll receive a one-time key with your diagnosis to enter into COVID Alert. The app asks permission to share your random codes from the last 14 days with a central server. Other phones using COVID Alert check the central server periodically throughout the day. If they recorded any codes that match the codes in the central server, their user will be notified that they were exposed.
COVID Alert has no way of knowing:
-your location - COVID Alert does not use GPS or location services -your name or address -the place or time you were near someone -if you're currently near someone who was previously diagnosed
Provincial and territorial governments are working to support COVID Alert across Canada. In some places, people cannot yet report a COVID-19 diagnosis through this app.
It’s still helpful to keep COVID Alert on, no matter where you are. That way, when people are able to report a diagnosis, you’ll find out if you were near them.
COVID Alert was built by Health Canada with the Canadian Digital Service on the private exposure notification framework by Apple and Google.
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Comments on COVID Alert - Let’s protect each other for Android
★★★★★
The app is nice to have but recently seems to get stuck checking for exposure. Should I uninstall and reinstall?
★★★★★
Wish everyone in the country downloaded this as it works great for letting me know if I've been exposed to someone with COVID.
★★★★★
Maybe you should add a share button to this app. That might get more people involved. I was looking for one to send my daughter who is in Alberta.
★★★★★
This subject does,not bother me as much will yes I should say I just about lost my sister and mother my sister had it really bad she almost died it all started the first of January 1 and mother also my sister lost her eye sight and now walks with a cane I am left with alot of hurt and angry and my mom is still having a hard time I been going through the worst bad luck I can,take it anymore but I'm cool vivid lest u say about anything but I'm no fool I don,t right my emotions that's were it oh no
★★☆☆☆
I've had this app from the day it was launched and this has never notified me of any possible exposure to covid. I canput my trust in an app that don't work the way it should.
★★☆☆☆
When Bluetooth is off it never shuts up. I am at home and so not need my phone notifying me that it cannot check for exposure every 10-15 mins.
★★☆☆☆
It is completely useless in BC because you can't report if you got Covid or not so it won't be able to tell you if you got it. The app is really well designed and works great but you need BT on always for it to work which will decrease your battery life faster
★★☆☆☆
useless app. since not all the provence sharing the same data over Canada. I downloaded this since day 1, and unbelievable that official app cannot be use to keep track of covid cases in one place.
Technologies used by COVID Alert - Let’s protect each other
COVID Alert - Let’s protect each other is requesting 9 permissions and is using 25 libraries.
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