Be Safer with AlohaSafe

When you live in a condominium, you’re bound to come within 6 feet of other residents in the lobby, elevator, and other common areas. To prevent the spread of COVID-19, we all must wear masks when outside (at least for the next 100 days, President Biden’s first executive order). There are people carrying the coronavirus that won’t know it until they get tested and are notified with a positive test result. Once they do, they are advised to self-quarantine for 14 days and notify people they’ve been in close contact with. The Department of Health will notify the places they’ve visited as part of their contact tracing procedure. Strangers who have had close contact with the infected person may never get notified. However, thanks to technology, there’s a solution.

AlohaSafe is a mobile app for iPhone or Android that will notify you if you were in close proximity to someone who reported being tested positive for COVID-19. It uses your mobile phone’s low-energy Bluetooth running in the background to detect your proximity to others and doesn’t share any of your personal information. The AlohaSafe Alert app is the official app of the Department of Health and is based on Google/Apple’s Exposure Network (GAEN). To download the app, go to https://alohasafealert.org or search for “AlohaSafe” in the App Store or Play Store.

For exposure notification to work effectively, everyone must use the app. Therefore, let’s spread the word and not the virus.