Japan’s health ministry suspended the registration of positive Covid-19 cases on its contact-tracing smartphone app Cocoa on Saturday as it worked to fix an error that left some people unable to enter their information.
The ministry aims to get the feature running again next week, according to a statement. It’s based on codes that people receive from public health centers when they test positive.
The ministry encouraged users to keep using the app, which had 6.5 million downloads across iOS and Android phones as of Friday evening. The app will continue to store 14 days of records of users’ proximity to others who have the program, even while the case registration function is suspended.
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