No Cork cases from Covid App: Cork public health doctor critical of highly-publicised tracker

The Covid-19 tracker app was introduced last year with the aim of supporting public health departments to identify Covid-19 cases and outbreaks, and alert people if they had been deemed a close contact and were in need of testing.
Mary O’Mahony, public health specialist for HSE South, has been working on the frontline of Ireland’s fight against Covid-19 since the virus arrived here last year.
The Covid-19 tracker app was introduced last year with the aim of supporting public health departments to identify Covid-19 cases and outbreaks, and alert people if they had been deemed a close contact and were in need of testing.
However, speaking to
, Dr O’Mahony said that the app had not been helpful to the cause.

She revealed that the public health team in Cork/Kerry was not aware of a single case of Covid-19 where the Covid-19 tracker app led to detection.