UCC launches Covid app for safe campus attendance

App users are asked to log daily a self-check of their symptoms in order to generate a campus pass for on-site attendance. 

A very quiet campus at UCC as students receive lectures online. Picture: Dan Linehan

University College Cork (UCC) has launched a new Covid-19 app to help protect staff, students and the wider community.

Developed in collaboration with Ergo, an IT consultancy business, the Cork university is the first in the country to produce a Covid-19 app for staff and students that checks for coronavirus symptoms ahead of a campus visit.