More sporingsapps in the EU may soon work together

It is important to sporingsapps to coronasmitte works across countries.

The government has underlined several times. And work to get it to work has been in full swing over the summer.

Within the next months, the Danish app Smittestop', which has a decentralized solution, could work together with other countries ' app with the same solution.

And it is extremely important for assessing the Camilla Gregersen, who is the president of Dansk Magisterforening and the part of the authorities ' expert panel in the development of a Danish app.

- You're working hard for it here, so that we can break smittekæderne across national borders.

- We're come so far now, that we have a national app that works. Now the next step is to get it to operate across the EU countries, the virus knows no national borders. This is going to work in this year, is the announcement, she says.

There must also be a decision in Parliament, before the 'Smittestop' can work together across borders.

'Smittestop' is based on a solution, such as Apple and Google have jointly created. Here is a decentralised storage of data.

It will say that information about contacts is only at the users ' own phones, and it is the most secure solution, beats by Camilla Gregersen fixed.

Countries which use the decentralized solution already, Denmark, Germany, Poland, Austria, Estonia, Croatia, Ireland and Latvia.

Several other EU countries are on the way to select the same solution, informs Camilla Gregersen.

At a news conference Saturday, said health minister Magnus Heunicke (S), that one million danes have downloaded the Danish smittesporingsapp.

More than 400 people have logged in in the app and registered, that they are infected.

But more and more people to download the app and remember to have the app active, sounded the call from the minister.

According to Thomas Benfield, who is a professor and chief physician in communicable diseases at Hvidovre Hospital, should more download the app, if it is to have effect.

- as long As it is only a million or two, as have the app, it can only be used as an indicator. But if everyone has it, and it actually works and is open, then you have a different situation.

- So you can actually use it for active smitteopsporing. So you should probably up the 80 percent who use it actively, for that it provides something more, he says.

Benfield also assesses that it would be 'most optimal', if more countries had the apps working together.

It is only sporingsapps, which uses the decentralised solution that will be able to work together with the Danish.

for Example, Norway had first opted for a gps-based solution, which would not be able to work together with the Danish app Smittestop'.