By FUMIKO KURIBAYASHI/ Staff Writer
July 21, 2020 at 18:55 JST
The contact tracing app to inform users when they have come into close contact with novel coronavirus carriers started operating on June 19. (Asahi Shimbun file photo)
A COVID-19 contact-tracing app introduced by the government has been plagued by problems in its first month of operation such as not allowing a positive test to be registered and a lack of users. [Read More]
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