Application covid radar It has been an application launched by the Government of Spain in order to track coronavirus infections that have taken place in Spain, an application that is recommended for use, although it is installed and used voluntarily. It is one more tool to be able to combat the Covid-19 pandemic.
The launch took place several weeks ago and is already available and active in the vast majority of the Spanish autonomous communities, available for both iOS and Andorid, an app that has generated a lot of controversy and doubts about its operation and the data it collects in order to function. in a correct way.
For this reason, to solve all doubts we will explain how it works.
How the Radar Covid app works
This application has a very simple operation, since it is enough to install it on the mobile device by downloading it through the respective Google and Apple application stores. You should know that does not use your location or any permission out of the ordinary as other social networks and platforms such as TikTok or Facebook do, but what it does is make use of the Bluetooth connection.
Through bluetooth, the app is responsible for generating a series of random keys that are relayed to nearby mobile phones that have the application installed and both record the contact between them. In this way, if you come across a person within two meters who has the application installed, it will be possible to know if you have been in contact. However, it will not identify where that contact has taken place or what person.
In this way, in the event that a person gives positive in Covid19 and enter the code in the application that the health authorities will provide, the application will automatically send a notification to the people with whom you have had some type of contact, in a way that will notify you of a possible risk of contagion.
For the application to work correctly you must activate your bluetooth connection, accept the terms of use and flip the switch covid radar and that simple.
You should not do anything else and it will be the application itself that will be in charge of registering possible contacts with other people and thus notify you if any person with whom you have met is infected, although this does not imply that you are.
It's important to know that you will not know the person who has tested positiveSince the application maintains total anonymity, you will not know what day or when you met that person.
On the other hand if you are the one who tests positive, You must enter the code provided by the health authorities In order to notify others that you are infected and the alert will reach their mobile devices. This tool can be really useful, as long as everyone or as many people as possible has it installed.
The Government of Spain itself reports that Radar COVID is a mobile application developed to help control the spread of COVID-19 through the identification of possible close contacts of confirmed cases through Bluetooth technology, understood as close contact the one that has a person who has been in the same place as a COVID-19 case, at a distance of less than 2 meters and for more than 15 minutes. The period in which close contacts are sought when a confirmed case is identified is from 2 days before the onset of symptoms of the case until the moment when the case is isolated. In asymptomatic cases confirmed by PCR, contacts are sought from 2 days before the date of diagnosis.
In addition, it is insisted that it is a tool that complements manual contact tracing. "Until now, contact tracing tasks were carried out by Public Health agents and / or health personnel, contacting each confirmed case individually, generally by telephone, generating through the interview a list of close contacts to make the pertinent recommendations and follow-up. The Radar COVID application supposes a complementary method for finding contacts at risk of contracting a COVID-19 infection and could allow identification of unidentified contacts manually«, Informs the Government of Spain.
The problem that exists at the moment in which there is large cities such as Madrid or Barcelona that have not yet activated This application.