Until now, it is still necessary to phone a hotline to get a PIN number. Telekom is already working on the relevant infrastructure. It is hoped that it will soon be possible to feed test results passed on from doctors' practices directly into the app employing a QR code. Jasper, 27, uses the Corona-Warn-App in Berlin Image: DW/K. Everything takes place anonymously and voluntarily. Telekom says there will be different degrees of warning depending on how close and for how long a user approaches someone who is infected. If someone tests positive and the information is fed into the app, a push message is sent to everybody in the proximity of the infected person. Movement profiles are not possible because location-tracking GPS data is not employed. This takes place as a background function using cryptographic keys, so-called IDs, which are constantly transmitted and received. The app uses Bluetooth to measure whether, over a long period of time, mobile phone users have moved closer and then stores this data on the smartphone. The technical concept, based on Bluetooth interfaces and decentralized storage, was developed in collaboration with Apple and Google. German software giant SAP and Telekom subsidiary T-Systems were commissioned with developing the app by the German government. Read more: Coronavirus outbreaks: Will Germany become Europe's next major hotspot? Users hope there will soon be an update to tackle the problem. For example, the app is not supported in one particular region. There are, however, some teething problems - nothing unusual in the app development sector. Even the Chaos Computer Club - Europe's largest association of hackers - has signaled its approval. Otherwise, the app is being viewed as a success. Users need to have either at least an iPhone 6s or an Android 6 model to join the system, although there have been reports that older generation devices will soon have access. The number of potential users could be higher still because, as government spokesman Steffen Seibert pointed out, the technology so far does not work on some older mobile phones. German Health Minister Jens Spahn (right) looks on as the coronavirus app is put on display by Bavarian State Premier Markus Söder (left) Image: picture-alliance/AP/M. Experts in Oxford say that a tracing app can play a key part in any pandemic concept that also includes hygiene, distancing and masks, if it adopted by at least 15% of the population. Still, a first key hurdle appears to have been crossed. However, there are no statistics to illustrate how many people have already deleted the app, use it either incorrectly, or not at all. The download figures are higher than in all other European countries together, as German Health Minster Jens Spahn was proud to announce. It is also the organization behind the creation of the Corona-Warn-App. The RKI is Germany's central agency and research institute for disease control and prevention. Although the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) says the figure is slightly lower, at around 13%. It is therefore all the more surprising that just one week after the app was launched, 15% of people living in Germany have downloaded it. But, when it comes to Germany's new warning app, surveys suggest people are far more skeptical. For a number of weeks now, polls have shown that the majority of Germans view their government's crisis management in the COVID-19 pandemic as both right and effective.
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