COVID Alert app now available in Quebec - Android

After previously favouring a made-in-Quebec solution, the province’s government is now encouraging Quebecers to download the COVID Alert app that’s in use in other parts of the country. At the end of September, the Quebec Government said that the rapid increase in recent cases had forced it to use the federal app. The province now...

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After previously favouring a made-in-Quebec solution, the province’s government is now encouraging Quebecers to download the COVID Alert app that’s in use in other parts of the country.

At the end of September, the Quebec Government said that the rapid increase in recent cases had forced it to use the federal app. The province now sits at 79,650 cases, with 1,191 new cases being recorded on October 4th.

The COVID Alert app has been in use in Ontario since the summer. It utilizes a Bluetooth-based system to maintain an anonymous list of all the phones it’s been near lately. Then, if one of the devices on the list reports that its owner is COVID-19 positive, the app will alert you so you can get tested.

Today, the Government of Canada and the Government of Quebec confirmed that COVID Alert, Canada’s #COVID19 exposure notification app, is now available in Quebec. Learn more: https://t.co/9KsGjKFi3L pic.twitter.com/o4Vnb5KEXo

— CanadianPM (@CanadianPM) October 5, 2020