After 5 months of existence and the lack of support from the French people, the government finally understood the facts: StopCovid is a failure. By Emmanuel Macron’s own admission, the app “didn’t work”. To remedy the situation, Elysée converted StopCovid to TousAntiCovid. It is enriched with tracking application to lure the French.A warning and information portal about the coronavirus. This new recipe has finally paid off. TousAntiCovid has reached 10 million downloads in a short time.
So it’s time to take stock of StopCovid, the first version of the app. An information report, chaired by Member of Parliament Les Républicains Eric Ciotti, assesses the shortcomings and successes of monitoring against Covid-19. It was presented at a press conference in the National Assembly on Wednesday, December 2nd.
A useless app that cost France millions
According to the report, StopCovid has not been very helpful in managing the outbreak. “From June to September, the app has been installed 2.5 million times for 1 million uninstalls and 300,000 reinstalls. The app that issued only 346 alerts scanned 5,553 positive tests, of which 296 were actually delivered” detail the report. Finally, “sanitary uselessness” StopCovid cannot be denied.
unnecessary and misunderstood, StopCovid only cost France millions of euros. “The estimated total cost of Stop-Covid over the five months of its existence (3 June – 22 October 2020) is 6.5 million euros including taxes” highlights the survey. In detail, the development of the application has already cost 2.5 million euros. Accommodation fee 576,000 Euros per year. Finally, The communication campaign to launch the app was unsuccessful given the low level of support from the population, costing 2,793,000 euros.
The report praises the improvements made by TousAntiCovid. “The development of the new “TousAntiCovid” application constitutes a very important improvement in terms of ergonomics and functionality, which translates into much higher downloads” note down the document. In addition, the app has already delivered 13,106 notifications. People who have been in contact with a person with Covid-19.