If you test positive for coronavirus, you can choose to use the app to anonymously alert other app users you have been in close contact with.
If the app finds that you have been in close contact with someone who has tested positive for coronavirus, you will get an alert.
- that's it, you are now part of the contact tracing community, helping to keep everyone safe from coronavirus.
The contact tracing team will send you a unique upload code by text message.
Contact tracing identifies people who were in close contact with someone who has coronavirus.
Our contact tracing team will phone you if you test positive.
These have been shared with the HSE by people using the app who have tested positive for coronavirus.
The COVID Tracker App can help reduce the spread of coronavirus in Ireland and help everyone stay safe.
If you have been closer than 2 metres for more than 15 minutes with any of these phones you will receive a notification that you are a close contact.
You can use the app to get the latest facts and figures about coronavirus in Ireland.
You won't know who the contact is or where the contact happened.
This information can help us to map and predict the spread of the virus.
Every 2 hours the app on your phone downloads a list of anonymous IDs.
You can then upload your anonymous IDs for the last 14 days.