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Germany Rolls Out Coronavirus-Tracing App to Fight Second Wave

  • There are no penalties or incentives to download software
  • Data-protection concerns have dogged app’s development

Germany’s new coronavirus tracing app.

Photographer: Sean Gallup/Getty Images 

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Germany called on its citizens to download a delayed app designed to help prevent a resurgence of the coronavirus, betting that civic duty is enough to get people to use the software and rejecting criticism that it will be ineffective.