About: The COVID ALERT SA app gives you the power to slow the spread of COVID-19 in
South Africa and to keep yourself, your loved ones and everyone else safe.
The
app is free and available to anyone based in South Africa.
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Those devices that have random codes on record matching the codes shared to the central server by your device, will receive a notification that the device user (an anonymous fellow member of the app community) has had potential exposure to COVID-19 over the prior 14 days.
The COVID ALERT SA app gives you the power to slow the spread of COVID-19 in South Africa and to keep yourself, your loved ones and everyone else safe.
Contact tracing refers to getting hold of people who have recently been in close contact with someone who has tested positive for COVID-19.
COVID ALERT SA removes the need for us to remember any of these details and makes the contact tracing process far more thorough.
COVID ALERT SA is part of COVIDConnect – the National Department of Health’s digital COVID-19 response platform.
If you test positive for COVID-19, you can choose to enter your unique PIN (it’s sent to you via SMS from the National Department of Health with your test result), as well as date of birth, into the app.
Other smartphones using the COVID Alert SA app check the central server periodically, throughout the day.
Healthcare workers interview the person who tested positive to make up a list of people they’ve had close contact with over the past 14 days.
We do this to let them know that they may have been exposed to the disease, so that they can self-quarantine, monitor their symptoms and prevent the spread of the disease to others (especially those considered high-risk for serious illness or death from COVID-19).
The app uses Bluetooth signals to exchange what are called “random codes” (random numbers that change every so often) with other smart phone app users, when they come within close proximity of each other.
The app is built on Apple and Google’s exposure notification framework and it’s been designed to protect your identity and security.
The app will ask you for permission to share random codes stored on your phone with a central server.
The random codes exchanged at the time of “digital hand-shaking” are stored in a log on each phone for 14 days.
• Tell you how to manage your health and track any COVID-19 symptoms.
- The app is said to save lives.
- It only requires access to Bluetooth and does not ask for any other personal information.
- The app is claimed to be completely safe to use.
By PhoenixZA
It’s a great app but the President said it would work on all smartphones and it doesn’t.
My mothers iPhone 6 is not compatible with COVIDAlertSouthAfrica and that is actually really annoying.
It’s seems to be quite a simple app why can’t it work on older models.
But if it comes from South Africa there will always be more negatives than positives.
By @EdwinWatson
Using COVIDAlertSouthAfrica will save lives. You are not asked for anything except to allow access to Bluetooth. There is no security or privacy concerns and it is completely safe to use.
By CTKaz
Notification of potential exposure when I didn’t leave the house at all on the day means that there is no point to COVIDAlertSouthAfrica, together with sending an alert on what would be the last day of isolation, what is the point? Not knowing if an alert is because I was actually exposed or someone visited a neighbour renders COVIDAlertSouthAfrica completely pointless.
By Pmgc911
COVIDAlertSouthAfrica is designed to send and receive all your movement data. It never sleeps and works In the back ground. COVIDAlertSouthAfrica has permissions to access all your Bluetooth and Internet connections sending your IMEI number that is RICA’d, to the authorities and letting them know who you are and where you are. COVIDAlertSouthAfrica is not anonymous at all. It invasive and should be avoided.
By disappointedInThisApp99
COVIDAlertSouthAfrica only works for government tests, if you get tested at Dischem or a different laboratory you cannot get a pin to alert others that they have been exposed.
Calling the helpline is 100% useless, don’t waste your time.
By PDG Jr
COVIDAlertSouthAfrica will only work if millions of people use it. I only see 5 reviews here (though it says 20). Why do I get the impression that there’s only a handful of phones running COVIDAlertSouthAfrica . Reason. Nobody trusts the government.
By Fourdispaired
I don’t no what to say. App just doesn’t work. Disappointing.
Yes. COVID Alert South Africa is quiet safe to use but use with caution. This is based on our NLP (Natural language processing) analysis of over 25 User Reviews sourced from the Appstore and the appstore cumulative rating of 3.3/5 . Justuseapp Safety Score for COVID Alert South Africa Is 37.3/100.
Yes. COVID Alert South Africa is legit, but not 100% legit to us. This conclusion was arrived at by running over 25 COVID Alert South Africa User Reviews through our NLP machine learning process to determine if users believe the app is legitimate or not. Based on this, Justuseapp Legitimacy Score for COVID Alert South Africa Is 54.1/100..
COVID Alert South Africa works most of the time. If it is not working for you, we recommend you excersise some patience and retry later or Contact Support.
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