Score76

Easier to create a new Google account and as you're doing it set any location option to Portugal. I've never successfully managed to change one once created. You can then flip between the accounts depending on what you want to be able to install. Having a Portuguese account opens up the ability to get at other apps, Cartao Continente, Auchan, Meo, EDP, Galp, Banking apps etc. It doesn't physically make any difference where you are, just which account you're logged on with.

macliam

I found the app easily enough without switching accounts, just by searching the name in Google Play. It downloaded and opened without issue.

Loafing Along

The issue now is the number of people who actually sign up and then if tested positive, actually do enter the code provided by their doctor. Think it is going to need a huge amount of publicity to make it work effectively.

atlasthemonk

Re flying risk....So many of the uk covid cases appear 3 days after returning to the UK and rarely during their overseas holiday...My assumption is that the transmission was during the flight or the crowded transit to or from the airport. nb just my assumption.

Score76

It is being advertised on TV, haven't noticed it anywhere else. The couple of Portuguese friends I've asked about it both share the opinion that no Portuguese will install it. They fear being tracked and controller. Neither had it installed.

macliam

I'm not surprised......memories of the Estado Novo and the PIDE take a long time to fade (even if the memories are from their grandparents!!)

It will probably be the same in the old Eastern Bloc countries too.....

RichardHenshall

Links to the App Store and Google Play versions are available from https://stayawaycovid.pt/

Unfortunately I can only have one country's app active at a time. If and when I fly from one country to the other, I will have to guess at which point in the journey I switch from one app to the other.

zoff

Thanks for the link! I've been searching the iOS App Store for some time and Stayaway
Covid doesn't come up on the results.

dmu

Same here in France.
The French TV news this weekend said that only 2 million or so French people have installed STOP-Covid and it has been described as a flop.... No idea how much the App costs, but is it worth it? In any country?

suiko

Installed the app no problem. Guess I'll see if it works when I get to Portugal again. I don't think installing another Google account is going to be a good idea for me, as I am constanty forgetting passwords anyway.

Surely if it's true that symptoms often appear 3 days after return to UK then that makes it unlikely to be connected to flying, given that symptoms normally take at least 5 days to appear, no? Personally I think it's much more likely that one will catch it here than just about anywhere else.

RichardHenshall

Apple are building some of the exposure notification functionality into the next upgrade to iOS (13.7).

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-53987928

Fredbargate

Hi
Is there any site where I can find the latest daily information on requirements when in Portugal
i.ie wearing of masks? eating and drinking is it permitted inside and or outside ? or is there limits on the number of people in various establishments? etc.

I am planning a trip later this month and will ( I hope ) be entering Portugal from Plasencia Spain

Loafing Along

This site gives a good guide : https://www.visitportugal.com/en/node/421175

Howver on the 15th September the government is due to make a new annoucement which may change certain conditions.

Fredbargate

Thank you Loafing Along, that link appears to cover all my queries, my visit will be after the 15th September but I expect/hope the site will be updated