July 07, 2020

New Covid Tracker app available

Covid tracker app

COVID Tracker app now available to download

As part of the effort to reduce the spread of coronavirus, the HSE has made a free smartphone app that helps improve contact tracing for COVID-19.

The COVID Tracker app is now available on covidtracker.ie, and can help make contact tracing faster and more accurate, reducing the spread of coronavirus.

People who use the app can:

  • get an alert if they have been in close contact with someone who tests positive for COVID-19
  • alert others if they test positive for coronavirus – this will help keep other people safe
  • track symptoms and get advice on what to do if they’re sick
  • get regular updates, and protect themselves and others as we learn to live with COVID-19

How will the app protect privacy?

  • The app exchanges secure, anonymous records when people using the app are in close contact with each other. The app will never identify app users and they cannot access each other’s information.
  • The app does not collect names, location or movements. Records are collected anonymously and stored on your mobile phone.
  • If a person tests positive for COVID-19, they can choose to upload records to anonymously alert their close contacts.
  • Users can choose to put their mobile phone number into the app. The contact tracing team will call them, if they receive a close contact alert, to give advice and arrange a test, if needed.
  • If people use the COVID Check-In function to record any symptoms, they can anonymously share their town or county, age group and sex, to help the HSE understand the spread of COVID-19 in Ireland.

The more people who download and use the app, the more effective it will be to help reduce the spread of COVID-19.

For more information, go to covidtracker.ie

Stay safe. Protect each other.