10% of Android users of the HSE's Covid-19 tracker app have since deleted it, the Irish Examiner has learned. 86,000 Android users have deleted the application since its launch, the HSE confirmed. Android phones, which represent roughly 40% of Ireland's smartphone market, have been used to download the Covid-19 tracker app 780,000 times, so roughly 11% of those have since uninstalled it. The HSE does not have figures for the number of Apple users who have deleted the app. It said 206 close-contact alerts have been sent by the app, to date, on foot of 82 people who have tested positive for Covid-19.

Source: Irish Examiner August 09, 2020 19:52 UTC