The latest app to help fight corona goes by the name of „Luca“. It promises a lot. The developers advertise with the slogan „Experience life together. But how does it differ from the classic Corona-Warn-App of the Robert Koch Institute (RKI)? Quite simply, the focus here is on simple contact tracking. The goal here is to give citizens more freedom again. Is Luca capable of doing this?
How „Luca“ works
In the meantime, the Corona pandemic has occupied politics as well as society for over a year. Thanks to existing vaccines, we will hopefully still get the virus under control in 2021. Nevertheless, the Covid-19 disease continues to run rampant at an alarmingly high rate. This is due in no small part to special mutations that ensure faster transmission of the virus. For this reason, it is hardly surprising that there is now a desperate search for alternatives to so-called „herd immunity“ through vaccination. In addition to rapid tests for private households and increasingly reliable...
