The German contact tracing app has been downloaded by 6.5M people in the first 24 hours of availability, says the government. The Corona-Warn-App uses the joint Apple/Google API to ensure privacy, a U-turn on the German government’s previous plan to use a centralized database approach.
Italy also got off to a good start with downloads of its Immuni app, which also uses the API.
It’s a very different picture in the UK, however …
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