Belgium COVID-19 Mobile Application

Feature of Coronalert app

The app can:

• Warn you if you have been in close contact with someone who has tested positive for coronavirus, without you knowing who, where or when
• advise you on the steps you can take to protect yourself and others
• anonymously notify other users of the app with whom you have had close contact, if you have tested positive for coronavirus.

Coronalert helps you to follow up your contacts much more closely, without any effort on your part. Moreover, this is done anonymously. This way you protect your health and privacy at the same time.

If a user of the app is infected with the coronavirus, he or she can have a warning sent to all his or her close contacts over the past few days. This is quicker than the classic contact detection by the contact centre. It also works for contacts you do not know personally.

Speed is important, to protect yourself and your loved ones. That’s how we’re getting closer and closer to the coronavirus.

Faster contact detection

Contact detection warns people who are at increased risk of the coronavirus because they have been in close contact with someone who has the virus. If the contact detection identifies you as a close contact, they can advise you on what action to take to protect yourself and others.

The app reinforces the existing contact detection:

• to warn you more quickly if you have a close contact, immediately after passing a positive test result to Sciensano
• to warn contacts you may have forgotten
• enable contact tracing for people who do not know each other personally
• Contact follow-up is an essential part of our strategy to slow down the spread of the virus. The more people download and use the app, the more it will help in contact tracing

Warning about close contacts

If Coronalert determines that you were in close contact with someone who tested positive for the coronavirus, you will receive a warning via the app. You don’t know who it is, and you don’t know where or when the contact happened.

You only know that you were close enough, two meters or less, for at least 15 minutes, so that there really is a risk that you were exposed to the virus.

The warning advises you:

• to go into quarantaine during 10 days
• to have you tested for the coronavirus, if you have symptoms

Privacy & data

• It is your choice whether or not to use the app
• You will never be asked for your name, age or address
• It’s up to you whether you want to warn others or not
• You remain anonymous – the other users of the app don’t know who you are

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