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Uruguay is the first country in Latin America to have a mobile application that reports on exposure to COVID-19 highlighted the Minister of Industry Omar Paganini at the presentation of the new version of Coronavirus.uy this Monday 15th in Executive Tower. The digital tool was valued as a significant advance for the management of the pandemic in this stage of gradual opening of activities.With the participation of the Industry Ministers Omar Paganini Public Health Daniel Salinas and the engineer Nicols Jodal representing the Uruguayan software companies that collaborated in this development presented the new version of the Coronavirus mobile application at the Executive Tower with the incorporation of alerts from exposure to be protected in the new normal.This application was downloaded 325000 times in its previous version with 52000 queries for symptoms. The first stage was successful and put us at the forefront of digital platforms to face the pandemic said Paganini. On the day more than 50000 people downloaded the application with the new functionality.Some countries call it the digital face mask. Italy and Switzerland have it in operation and Uruguay is the first country in Latin America to have it said the minister. He clarified that the application does not generate additional investment costs for the country and works with the structure of the Agency for Electronic Government and the Information Society C AGESIC and the Ministry of Public Health.He added that the tool respects the principles of health prevention and responsible freedom as established by the Government for the management of the pandemic. You have to defend the result especially on the border and this tool is for that he stressed.For the head of Public Health Daniel Salinas Coronavirus.uy is a huge qualitative leap because the work is based on health intelligence and is a perfecting of epidemiological monitoring. In addition the system is a novel tool before this stage of opening of activities in which the opening for international trips is being analyzed.This application is found on the mobile phone software platforms used worldwide by the companies Google and Apple which announced in April regarding the collaboration to include components and protocols for exposure alerts. Through technicians and with the participation of Uruguayans our country positioned itself at the forefront and completed the stages of implementation verification and certification to incorporate technology Nicols Jodal stressed during the press conference on Monday 15.Exposure alerts warn each person of possible exposure to the virus if they have stayed close to a user identified as a carrier of COVID-19. In this way they will be able to receive medical attention preventive measures and other indications quickly. The warning will serve as a preventive measure for your health and that of your family and will decrease the chances of contagion to the rest of the population.For this each person who receives a positive COVID-19 test result will have the possibility of collaborating with the rest of the population by giving their permission which will be explicitly requested. Thus those who have recently contacted this person will receive a quick alert with the assurance that these users will not know who he or she is or where they maintained contact. At this point Jodal insisted on its use by citizens residing on the borders.Mobile application has all the guarantees of computer securityAttendees insisted that the system does not reveal any personal data or identify cell phones or spaces visited by people. The more people who choose to join this initiative they added the greater the chances that each Uruguayan will find out about the eventuality of having been exposed to the virus.It also only works if the user agrees to activate it. Even after voluntarily joining the system your permission and participation will be required for specific actions. After you grant initial permission to activate alerts you can deactivate it at any time.This communication is done directly between nearby cell phones. This means that they do not go through any antenna data center or systems of telephone operators cell phone manufacturers providers of this application or government entities. Each cell phone is responsible for storing the codes that it issued and received during the last 15 days. The system is more like operating a alarm clock than receiving a text message.
