“I am truly sorry for the inconvenience caused and for the loss of trust,” health minister Norihisa Tamura said on Wednesday, according to state broadcaster NHK, as he confirmed that a problem with the nation’s Covid-19 app had prevented alerts from being passed on. NHK reported that the bug affected about 30 percent of Android phone users since September, meaning that the application did not send notifications for a considerable number of potential Covid-19 contact cases.
Link: Covid-19 app failed to pass on contact warnings for Android users since September, says Japanese govt
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