Belgium introduces contact-tracing app Coronalert
To help spread COVID-19, the Belgian authorities have launched a contact-tracing Coronalert app. Based on the decentralised model, the app stores contact information on the device for 14 days. According to the co-creator Axel Legay, the app needs to be downloaded by 15% of the population to be effective.
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