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Globally yes, but the thing about contact tracing is that it is inherently local. So getting 1/6:th (if we assume most of those downloads are in Italy) of a single country would probably be helpful in preventing spread.


It means 1/36 interactions will be recorded by the app, which is almost certainly not enough to move the needle.




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