China bins its COVID tracking app

China discontinued operation of its COVID tracking app on Monday as part of the Middle Kingdom's transition away from a dynamic zero-COVID strategy. According to an announcement from the state-run Communications Itinerary Card's Weixin – otherwise known as the domestic version of WeChat – the service closed when the clock …

[PhilipN]

Hong Kong...residents....relieved...

Check the SCMP for clarity :

"restaurant patrons and entrants to other designated venues would still need to show proof of having received three Covid-19 vaccines"

[Anonymous Coward]

"Reportedly, according to an announcement from China Telecom, user data was deleted at the time of the app's retirement."

As we all know, China are most well known for their very limited data retention

[elsergiovolador]

There is a weasel word "user". The tracking data belongs to government and you can easily guess that government data will not be deleted.

[elsergiovolador]

Someone's failure

...someone else's gain!

Our failure was how much 37 billion?

[werdsmith]

Re: Someone's failure

No, nowhere near 37 billion. A small fraction of that.

[Anonymous Coward]

Now the question is

will Apple and Google stop working on COVID-19 contact tracing technology ans scrap the results ?

[ecofeco]

Bwahahahahaahha!!

Just in time for the new surge of infections!

[NeilPost]

Re: Bwahahahahaahha!!

Yup, even with the lower impact of the many versions of Omicron… the low Vaccine uptake in China is very concerning.

Esp. as the vaccines they have are inferior to Pfizer, Moderna, Janssen, OxAZ, Novavax and others.