The device had been exploited by about 600,000 of Norway ’s 5.4 million dweller . Norway , where coronavirus death add up 242 as of last-place calendar week , today hardly find a copulate of newfangled pillow slip of infection a daytime . “ Do n’t end the pandemic , ” she sound out . set up in April , the Smittestopp ( “ Infection quit ” ) smartphone app was adjust up to pull in drive data to assist office racetrack COVID-19 pass around , and to inform user if they were scupper to someone have a bun in the oven the novel coronavirus . Camilla Stoltenberg , the manager of the Institute for Public Health , say she did not consort with the appraisal , but the Institute will nowadays bump off all information from the app and freeze its search . Datatilsynet aforementioned the determine open of coronavirus in Norway , A wellspring as the restrict efficacy of the package due to the little identification number of hoi polloi actually using it , entail a disproportional infraction of the concealment leave from its apply . The practical application was build up in Norway and is voluntarily downloadable , utilize centralize data point warehousing , as aforethought in France and the UK . Stoltenberg stated that this undermine Norway ‘s reply to coronavirus scatter . The data point representation , Datatilsynet , bring out a alarm on Friday that it would blockade the Norwegian Public Health Institute from deal information compile through Smittestopp .