Nearly 40% of Icelanders are using a covid app?and it hasn?t helped much
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The country has the highest penetration of any automated contact tracing app in the world, but one senior figure says it “wasn’t a game changer.”When Iceland got its first case of covid-19 on February 28, an entire apparatus sprang into action. But despite this early deployment and widespread use, one senior figure in the country’s covid-19 response says the real impact of Rakning C-19 has been small, compared with manual tracing techniques like phone calls.“The technology is more or less … I wouldn’t say useless,” says Gestur Pálmason, a detective inspector with the Icelandic Police Service who is overseeing contact tracing efforts.
As said here by Bobbie Johnson