The COVID-19 pandemic

[danbrotherston]

Time to deploy some stink bombs around those protesters.

I’m a block from the park.  This scares me, I will be staying in to avoid these people and their freedom delusions. But I hope the businesses nearby me that I rely on are not harmed by these selfish entitled people.

[clasher]

Time to deploy some stink bombs around those protesters.

I’m a block from the park.  This scares me, I will be staying in to avoid these people and their freedom delusions. But I hope the businesses nearby me that I rely on are not harmed by these selfish entitled people.

I'm hoping it turns out like the Hamilton one and twenty people show up and wander around for a bit.

[ac3r]

The Ontario Covid-19 exposure tracking app is now available and out of beta testing.

Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/detai....stopcovid
iOS: https://apps.apple.com/ca/app/covid-alert/id1520284227

Source code is here: https://github.com/CovidShield

[tomh009]

Waterloo Region  reported another new case-free day today, making it four out of five this week. The new case increase was 0.0% of the total cases to date and 0.0% of the current active caseload. New cases averaging 2.3% of actives over the past seven days. Active cases in the region were down to 35 (-1), and down by 17 in the past seven days.

2,120 tests over the past three days, or an average of 707 per day and a positivity rate of 0.05%.

Ontario reported 134 new cases today, back above 100, with a seven-day average of 115 new cases. 168 recoveries and three deaths translated to a decrease of 37 active cases, so we're now at 1,360, back to the lows of two weeks ago. A weekly total change of -187. 30,033 tests for a 0.4% positivity rate. The positivity rate is averaging 0.45% for the past seven days.

The new cases are 0.3% of the total and 9.9% of the number of active cases. New cases averaging 7.7% of actives over the past seven days.

The ICU population is back up to 29 (+2).

• 26 cases in Ottawa: 2.6 per 100K population
  
• 24 cases in Windsor-Essex: 13.3 per 100K population
  
• 20 cases in Peel: 2.0 per 100K population
  
• 19 cases in Toronto: 0.6 per 100K population
  
• 0 cases in Waterloo: 0.0 per 100K population
  

[bgb_ca]

The Ontario Covid-19 exposure tracking app is now available and out of beta testing.

Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/detai....stopcovid
iOS: https://apps.apple.com/ca/app/covid-alert/id1520284227

Source code is here: https://github.com/CovidShield

Wow. It's surprising they released the source code for this. If someone who knows how to read Android source code can verify what is being sent back, I probably won't have an issue installing it (And before people say "But you use Android", yes I know...)

[taylortbb]

The Ontario Covid-19 exposure tracking app is now available and out of beta testing.

Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/detai....stopcovid
iOS: https://apps.apple.com/ca/app/covid-alert/id1520284227

Source code is here: https://github.com/CovidShield

Wow. It's surprising they released the source code for this. If someone who knows how to read Android source code can verify what is being sent back, I probably won't have an issue installing it (And before people say "But you use Android", yes I know...)

I haven't reviewed the source, but Apple and Google have both said they will only be approving one contact tracing app per country, and it must not use location data (just the Bluetooth tracing API). So provided you're installing from App Store/Google Play you should be pretty safe, especially given there's no guarantee anyways that the binary in the store matches the published source.

[jamincan]

I've installed it!

[jeffster]

.....

https://www.kitchenertoday.com/coronavir...er-2604180

P.S. Spokes, you need to add a facepalm emoji to the list of smilies.

Seems we still have a lot of idiots in this town.

[Acitta]

The Ontario Covid-19 exposure tracking app is now available and out of beta testing.

Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/detai....stopcovid
iOS: https://apps.apple.com/ca/app/covid-alert/id1520284227

Source code is here: https://github.com/CovidShield

FYI COVID Alert Privacy Notice

[ac3r]

Correction, the source code I initially linked is apparently the parent project. The source code for the Canadian app is here...

App: https://github.com/cds-snc/covid-alert-app
Server: https://github.com/cds-snc/covid-alert-server

[tomh009]

No reports for the Waterloo Region  on the weekend, but the provincial reports do show four new cases in the region.

Ontario reported 124 new cases today, with a seven-day average of 113 new cases. 163 recoveries and two deaths translated to a decrease of 41 active cases, so we're down to 1,319, after a weekly total change of -225. 33,282 tests (a new high!) for a 0.4% positivity rate. The positivity rate is averaging 0.44% for the past seven days.

The new cases are 0.3% of the total and 9.4% of the number of active cases. New cases averaging 7.7% of actives over the past seven days.

The ICU population is down to 27 (-2). Total hospital count appears to be in the 70s now.

• 33 cases in Peel: 3.3 per 100K population
  
• 17 cases in Ottawa: 1.7 per 100K population
  
• 16 cases in Windsor-Essex: 8.9 per 100K population
  
• 16 cases in Toronto: 0.5 per 100K population
  
• 4 cases in Waterloo: 0.7 per 100K population
  

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Peel not out of the woods yet -- and I believe they just moved to stage 3.

[jeffster]

I installed the app for the iPhone but it says my iPhone is not compatible (iPhone 11). Tried re-intalling it a couple times, but no luck. First time I have had an app not work for me.

[tomh009]

I installed the app for the iPhone but it says my iPhone is not compatible (iPhone 11). Tried re-intalling it a couple times, but no luck. First time I have had an app not work for me.

Very strange! I had no trouble on an iPhone XS. Unless you have not updated your phone -- it requires iOS 13.5 or later.

[tomh009]

No reports for the Waterloo Region  on the weekend, but the provincial reports do show three new cases in the region.

Ontario reported 116 new cases today, with a seven-day average of 110 new cases. 122 recoveries and one death translated to a decrease of seven active cases, so we're down to 1,311, after a weekly total change of -246. 30,443 tests for a 0.4% positivity rate. The positivity rate is averaging 0.42% for the past seven days.

The new cases are 0.3% of the total and 8.8% of the number of active cases. New cases averaging 7.7% of actives over the past seven days.

The ICU population is down to 26 (-1).

• 20 cases in York: 1.8 per 100K population
  
• 16 cases in Ottawa: 1.6 per 100K population
  
• 14 cases in Chatham-Kent: 12.6 per 100K population
  
• 14 cases in Peel: 1.4 per 100K population
  
• 13 cases in Windsor-Essex: 7.2 per 100K population
  
• 3 cases in Waterloo: 0.5 per 100K population
  

Toronto now below 10 but York steps in to fill the gap ... and Chatham is back.

[KevinL]

The app does need the Bluetooth antenna to work in a particular way in order to get correct range to other users and properly allow the 'note exchange'. Some phones don't have an antenna capable of that, or their operating system can't access it the right way.