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The app is not magic!
STAYAWAY COVID allows informing people who, over the previous 14 days, have been in close contact with someone infected with COVID-19. Only after the National Health Service confirms the infection will the user who tested positive for COVID-19 obtain a numeric code – which, after being inserted in the [...]
Tracing, Not Tracking
Tracing means “searching for signs of a disease among a specific population”. STAYAWAY COVID is a contact tracing application for COVID-19 that supports public health professionals examining signs of COVID-19 among previous contacts of a person confirmed as positive for the virus by the National Health Service. In [...]
Google / Apple Exposure Notifications Express (ENX)
Google and Apple will soon launch a variant of the Exposure Notification System, called Exposure Notifications Express (ENX). In Portugal, the ENX will not replace the STAYAWAY COVID application. The goal of the ENX is to support public health authorities who do not intend to develop and promote [...]
The App and the several operating systems and mobile phones
The STAYAWAY COVID application was developed exclusively for the iOS (Apple) and Android (Google) operating systems. The application depends specifically on a recent extension of these operating systems called “Exposure Notifications”. The use of this resource enables digital contact tracing applications, such as the STAYAWAY COVID, to: run [...]
Google and Apple “monthly update”
STAYAWAY COVID uses the “Exposure Notification” features provided by Google and Apple operating systems for contact tracing purposes. Moreover, the Android and iOS operating systems are responsible for exchanging the random identifiers between mobile phones, and for detecting which random identifiers were broadcast via the mobile phones over [...]