Vojtěch: Ministry plans campaign to promote eFacemask app

The Czech minister of health, Adam Vojtěch, says his government department is planning a campaign to promote eFacemask, a mobile app intended to help contain the spread of the coronavirus. The app, which is not compulsory, is part of a “smart quarantine” system created by the government.

So far the eFacemask app has been downloaded to around 220,000 devices in the Czech Republic, which has a population of 10.7 million. It would need far broader adoption to be effective.

Mr. Vojtěch said on CNN Prima News on Sunday that the system will be promoted in the autumn, which is when other respiratory problems than Covid-19 disease are also likely to appear in the country.