Alberta, get on board with contact-tracing app

Re Alberta health minister defends province’s COVID-tracing app despite few contacts, Online, Nov. 17

Alberta cases are also rising because there is no clear method to do contacttracing, which is adding to more infections.

It is difficult to comprehend why the Alberta government is preferring ABTraceTogether, a subsidiary app of a Singaporean application, over our own Canadian app, developed within Canada.

The bottom line is we are in the middle of a worldwide health crisis and Canada is seeing more and more infections and even more COVID-19related deaths than in the initial stages of this pandemic.

Is this some political point-scoring game for our leaders, or are they sincerely trying to contain this viral infection and trying to work together for the safety of our population?

Anas Khan, Beaumont, Alta.