The Stayaway Covid phone application, which will allow for the tracking of virus infection through monitoring of physical proximity between devices, should be available from next week, said the Cabinet Affairs minister, Mariana Vieira da Silva, this Thursday.
Questioned at a press conference after a Council of Ministers meeting on what stage the development the application is in, Mariana Vieira da Silva said that the application is complete. "The application is ready, it has been through all the security tests.”
“There is a period that is necessary for it to be available in the stores of the different technological platforms that we use on our mobile phones, and the information I have is that next week it will be available for use," she explained.
According to the minister, the security testing phase was completed last week. The 'Stayaway Covid' is a voluntary mobile application that, through the monitoring of physical proximity between 'smartphones', allows health authorities to quickly and anonymously track the contagion networks of the virus, informing users whether they have been in the same place as an infected person within a period of 14 days.
