Health Canada announces discontinuation of COVID Alert app after low usage

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Health Canada announced on Friday that the COVID Alert app has been shut down, citing low usage, falling case counts and hospitalizations as well as the lack of PCR testing across Canada.

that the COVID Alert app has been shut down, citing low usage, falling case counts and hospitalizations as well as the lack of PCR testing across Canada.

The the app had only been downloaded 6.9 million times and logged 63,117 positive tests since it launched in July 2020. British Columbia, Alberta, Nunavut and Yukon also declined to participate in the app.Infectious diseases expert Dr. Isaac Bogoch calls the app "a good idea at the time" but says after six to eight months, the low uptake meant that the app "was not really going to be an effective tool.

 

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Now do arrive can. Lol. Another garbage app.

You don’t say!!

Nice try 2.0!!

Lmfao!!

Hahaha

Nice waste of money

A huge failure of Liberal Gov for spending huge money & resources for creating an app that could have been a great tool COVID JustinTrudeau

Flame out!!

Lmfao - waste of time, money!! You need to get rid of the fascist leader now that is JustinTrudeau

Big fail.

Shove all your apps 🖕

They had an app?

Tax payers' wasted for the sake of scamdemic theatre.

There was an alertapp? News to me.

That’s a good example of good science.

It was another expensive failure

There was an app?

Do we still have to use ArriveCAN?

Perfect . We don’t like surveillance

Everybody is done with being tracked by the gov't. The gov't response and handling of this pandemic was absolutely draconian.

I tried to log when I tested positive, but you need a code, so only those positive on PCR and given a code can add to the app. Not true representation of cases.

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There goes more of my tax payer dollars down the 🚽 for something that was never necessary.

This was a great investment by little Justin

Almost as if NO ONE wanted it in the first place.

Strange you would think the 90% of people that you claim willingly got vaccinated would be using this app

They’re still using that? 🤣

Same needs to be done with ArriveCan app! Needs to be eliminated.

I had covid twice. Many friends and all my neighbors. Not once did my app cross my mind or alert me

There is no use for App now because the government is not releasing the number of cases anymore. I don't understand how wearing a mask and physical distance is a violation of your rights.

They had an app? I didn't even know.

Imagine if they'd tested like they do now .. does it really matter knowing what you have and there's no treatment .. your still freaking sick as hell

Conservative Media pretends as if this is a big political win for CPC_HQ. Lol.

The App became meaningless in Dec 2021 when provinces stopped PCR testing

I had it originally, then figured they use it to track me legally during vaccination disasters as I gave them permission. Delete delete delete.

Which liberal assoc's company get the contract and who are the cronies get kickbacks?

Hahahahahaha

What a waste of money. Again.

After “low usage”. See, this is how the fake pandemic ends - people stop participating and they’ll stop pushing it. Participation = consent.

Tracking contacts by monitoring Bluetooth surroundings was a goofie idea on an airborne propagated virus. Notifying of potential exposure on basis of QR code tracking would have been far more effective. Google&Apple bailed out early once understood.

Darn I checked it every minute of the day.... can I still wear a mask in my car alone?

If only there had been an equally low usage of vaccine passports, they could have also been discontinued long ago and we could gave avoided discriminatory segregation based on nonsense.

Do ArriveCAN next

How many hundreds of thousands did this useless trudeau idea cost us taxpayers!!!

but , but , the science ...

ArcadiaNancy another billion dollars in the drain

Waste of money waste of time

Lol shocker!! nobody cares anymore no matter how much the government pushes this BS

$20MM pissed down the drain and not a single death prevented

What a waste of money that was doomed from day 1. Some tecky marketing type sold the government a bag of floppy goods to “help” society.

Low usage from the get go media created its own numbers lies and frenzy

YourMorning Wasted taxpayers money again!!

Maybe people are finally waking up to this global medical fraud.

Of course, but they still got all the private data from the CHUMPS that used this garbage App.

Hahahaha it’s over, stop trying to brainwash people. Fold your hand you may eventually be forgotten when the Nuremberg2 trials start. TrudeauIsDestroyingCanada

YourMorning Liberal government must have another app that they are using to spy with.

And how fuckkng much money was thrown away on this bullshit?

Can you inform us how much this fiasco costs ? Is anyone even tracking the wasted resources of this pandemic?

JoeCanadian9

That’s good. Once this fake Covid is proven time to deal with you pricks.

$millions squandered!

Money would have been better spent on actual healthcare... But the govt doesn't actually want to make things better. Healthcare in BC has been a problem for decades.

How to flush 20 million down the toilet. Wow. Another bad move by the liberals to add to the list.

yay another couple millions down the drain for ABSOLUTELY NO REASON

All of our hard earned money wasted. When all is said and done and the final tally of covid spending comes to light it will be enraging

Waste of Taxpayers money taxpayerDOTcom

KlondikePapers

If that not enough to realise that no one gives a shit idk what else will

Wasteful Government spending, just another example. Liberals, spend more, maybe on a monkey pox APP, lol.

This app failed because the whole system was a mess to begin with. They stopped requiring people to report positive cases a long time ago. Such a waste of money to begin with

Digital ID.

Million more tax payer dollars down the drain

ArriveCAN next.

Useless waste of money.

Because it didn’t work and they e stopped tracking

Contact tracing was useless when the virus was everywhere and all around us....our governments are so shit it's embarrassing.

Lol

For the 🐑le

Trudeau government admits they don’t need an app to track Canadians. *There, fixed your headline. Trudeau cdnpoli Chinada

I was so comfortable with knowing my neighbours' status. Can we double down on full surveillance to be fully protected? Like in China's mild dictatorship where everyone is extremely safe.

What a waste .. Canada is governed by a bunch of unqualified individuals with a narcissist as leader. Canada has fallen 🥲

You meant to say the unauthorized tracking app they disguised as the Covid alert app ? There fixed it for you

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