Covid-19 And Contact Tracing

While France is entering the first phase of its end-of-lockdown plan, the Government's strategy to combat a resumption of the epidemic is now based on monitoring "contact tracing", i.e. the swift identification of any person who has been close to a patient in order to also test him/her and, if necessary, isolate him/her to avoid the spread of the disease.

French authorities are planning an "information system" based on two medical databases: Sidep and Contact Covid. As the design of the StopCovid app. is still under way, its deployment was not included in the end-of-lockdown plan presented on April 28, 2020.

StopCovid is a mobile app. project launched by the French government and led by the National Institute for Research in Digital Science and Technology (Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique or "INRIA") with the objective of tracking populations, using the Bluetooth system of phones.