The federal government will be shutting down the COVID Alert app and may do so as early as this week, government sources have told CBC News. The phone app, which was launched in the summer of 2020, is designed to alert users to possible COVID-19 exposure. Users who have tested positive for the virus use a one-time key on the app to report their diagnoses. COVID Alert has been downloaded just 6,893,423 times and only 57,704 one-time keys to report infection have been used, according to the government. Canada has seen 3.87 million COVID-19 infections and 41,000 related deaths since the pandemic began.

Source: CBC News June 13, 2022 23:05 UTC