Yesterday evening the Government released a new Dpcm ready to contain the spread of Coronavirus which in recent weeks has seen infections among Italians grow exponentially, with a trend in growth also for all of Europe. During the press conference of the Prime Minister, Giuseppe Conte, it was not directly mentioned but in fact in the text the Immuni app is mentioned which will see a couple of important news since it was introduced.

Immune: what change for the future?

The first thing that comes to light when reading the Dpcm of 19 October 2020 is the fact that the Immune application , which we know as a national app for searching for contact tracing, to make it more effective will oblige the health worker of the Department of Prevention of local health company , by accessing the central system of Immuni, to upload the key code in the presence of a positive case. This means that the decree imposes the functioning of the Immuni system until it becomes operational with the reporting of the positivity in the ASL database and therefore of the ‘ ‘centralone’ ‘by Immuni.

The dpcm therefore requires the code generated by the application to be loaded into the system of those who report their positivity to COVID – previous days. In this case, according to the legislation, the code generated by the application must be taken over by the health worker of the Prevention Department of the Asl, Ats and Usl according to the Regions.

Immune: will download become mandatory?

According to La Stampa, the Premier Conte would have an idea of ​​ make Immuni mandatory to download for all Italian citizens. The idea would have come from the political leader Crimi of the 5 Star Movement, who would have thought in this way to remove the voluntariness for downloading the app thus allowing in this way (with the obligation) to actually have the possibility to accurately track the positivity of users given the large number of patients, both asymptomatic and not, of the last few weeks.

A proposal that is probably just an idea to be able to plug the wings of the Coronavirus which in recent months has seen its spread dramatically grow. In fact, however, not everyone may have a smartphone available to download the Immuni app. Here in that case, if it became mandatory , it is clear that the government should take charge of those citizens, perhaps by encouraging the purchase of a low-end device that still supports the Immune application. Recall that in Singapore the government has released some smartphones to users on loan to allow the tracking of Coronavirus positives.

We have seen that the Immuni application has been downloaded to date by nearly 9 million users. An important number but still definitely below the estimates for a good tracking of infections. In fact, in recent weeks the number has seen an exponential increase right after the news of the increase in positives in recent times, a sign that citizens are understanding the need to download a technological system such as Immuni that allows for more effective tracking and immediate compared to a manual with the ASL.

At the same time Immuni will allow you to exchange your data tracking with applications from Germany and Ireland for important international cooperation in the case of travel of citizens of the respective European countries. Immuni, in fact, has already been connected to the European Commission system which therefore allows tracing even in countries outside the country of residence. In this case, the application update is imminent, which will make it possible to formalize everything.

The application can be downloaded on both Android and iOS smartphones. For next generation devices of HUAWEI (and therefore also HONOR) the app is coming and will allow, as happens for the other two operating systems, to track the positives through the so-called HMS or HUAWEI services. The application, whether Android, iOS and in the future also HUAWEI, must be downloaded directly from the official website of immuni or from the Google and Apple store, being careful in this second case to download the right application.

• IMMUNI Official SITE —-> HERE
• IMMUNI application on ANDROID —> HERE
• IMMUNI application on iOS —> HERE

We saw in the explanation of the technical details of the Immuni application that on some older smartphones they would not be suitable for installing the application. Specifically, the ‘application can be downloaded and installed on these devices:

• iOS: iPhone with iOS version 13. 5 or higher. IPhone models that support iOS 13. 5 are iPhone 11, 11 Pro, 11 Pro Max, Xr, Xs, Xs Max, X, SE (second generation), 8, 8 Plus, 7, 7