Glitches dent German enthusiasm for Covid contact-tracing app
by Philip Oltermann in Berlin from Science | The Guardian on (#58FXZ)
Despite being downloaded more than 18m times, the app's effectiveness is being questioned
As England and Wales prepare to unveil a coronavirus contact-tracing app, Germany is drawing less than enthusiastic first conclusions about the effectiveness of battling the pandemic with smartphones.
A hundred days after its launch, German authorities conceded that IT glitches and poor communication channels with laboratories make the country's Corona-Warn-App one more tool of many" rather than a Covid-19 cure-all.
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