Health
Cheap, popular and it works: Ireland’s contact-tracing app success – The Guardian
Irish-made app has more than 1.3m downloads, in stark contrast to the UK’s efforts
A government minister once compared Irelands health care system to Angola a political minefield of dysfunction, bureaucracy, waste and inefficiency. The nickname stuck.
Yet this morass has just produced a shiny success: a Covid-19 contact-tracing app that is popular and appears to work.
Since launching on 6 July, the Covid Tracker app was downloaded 1.3m times in eight days the fastest-downloaded app per capita in Europe and has started picking up cases of infection.
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