Every second person would use the Corona warning app

Christiane Fux studied journalism and psychology in Hamburg. The experienced medical editor has been writing magazine articles, news and factual texts on all conceivable health topics since 2001. In addition to her work for, Christiane Fux is also active in prose. Her first crime novel was published in 2012, and she also writes, designs and publishes her own crime plays.

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56.1 percent of Germans would be willing to voluntarily install a tracking app to better contain the coronavirus epidemic. A quarter of the respondents (24.2 percent), on the other hand, categorically rejects the use of such an app, according to a representative survey by the opinion research institute Civey.

Concern about surveillance

Citizens were most concerned about potential surveillance even after the Corona crisis (42.8 percent) and misuse of data (40.2 percent). Almost every third person has concerns about the violation of their privacy (32.8 percent) and / or excessive government control (31.7 percent).

Anonymous warning

Corresponding follow-up programs are currently being developed at full speed. They should recognize via Bluetooth how long and in what proximity two cell phone owners were from each other. People with risky contact should then be informed anonymously as soon as a person has tested positive for the virus and this is noted in his app. Then the contact persons can voluntarily isolate themselves and be tested.

Such a measure could possibly also reduce strict exit restrictions, so the hope.

Tracking through health authorities is ineffective

So far, this information has passed through the health authorities. They try to reach all contact persons whom the infected person remembers with a high expenditure of time and personnel. But that often comes too late - especially since the virus is contagious before the first signs. Contacts that the person concerned does not know personally, for example on a joint train ride, are not even tracked down. If the virus continues to spread, appropriate follow-up will become increasingly patchy.

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