The European Commission on Monday launched an EU-wide system devised to link national COVID-19 tracing apps together in its latest effort to slow down the coronavirus pandemic.
Following testing in different EU countries earlier this autumn, the bloc's executive arm said the system got underway with three national apps – Germany's "Corona-Warn" app, Ireland's "COVID tracker," and Italy's "Immuni" – now linked through the so-called interoperability gateway.
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According to the European Commission, these three apps have been downloaded by around 30 million people, the equivalent of two-thirds of all tracing app downloads in the EU.
In total, the commission said tracing apps from 20 member states could be linked via this system. The EU said all information generated by the apps doesn't allow the identification of users and isn't kept after infections are traced back.
