Canary Islands will host a pilot project of a mobile application for tracking Covid-19 infections that will be developed at European level, and in which the Canary Islands Government and the Central Government are already working, through the Ministries of Health, Public Administrations, Justice and Security and the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Digital Transformation.
This type of tool records the movements of people who have contracted the virus and warns their contacts that they may have been exposed to a possible infection, which will help control the spread of the pandemic. As it is an interoperable app throughout the European Union and will share databases at European level, the tracking of cases will contribute to knowing the state of the pandemic in each region.
"This new mobile application, which already works in other countries such as Korea with good results and acceptance by the population, by warning a person of their possible contact with a positive in COVID-19, will facilitate the action of health teams that can take appropriate isolation and diagnostic measures, helping to reduce the impact of the pandemic," say from the regional government.
Chosen for its condition as an archipelago and tourist destination
"Knowing how the virus moves in a certain region helps, first of all, to be able to take measures in the de-escalation and the return to normality, but also to quickly stop possible outbreaks of the virus, by quickly isolating possible infected," adds the Executive.
In addition, he explains that the Canary Islands has been chosen by the Central Government for this pilot project because of its geographical condition as an archipelago and for being "a tourist destination recognized worldwide", and they hope that it will contribute to turning the islands "into a safe destination, as the app will allow to control the movements of the virus and, therefore, that the restrictions on external mobility will be eased as the epidemiological and control data indicate".
Both governments emphasize that this type of tools "will be respectful of the identity and privacy of the tracked people, always guaranteeing compliance with the Organic Law on the Protection of Personal Data".
