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Bob was always fun to be around. I was fortunate enough to collaborate with him on the @WHO Covid App. Bob masterfully build the backend in one impressive commit: https://github.com/WorldHealthOrganization/app/pull/127. You will be dearly missed, Bob.

I don't know why you're so focused on lockdown dates. The only relationship this app has with lockdown dates is that it was developed near the start of the pandemic. It's just a simple app with tips about avoiding the disease and the latest counts. https://github.com/WorldHealthOrganization/app/blob/master/c...

Mildly interesting... In 2020, The World Health Organisation started working on a COVID-19 app for Nigeria, built with Flutter. I've been actively interested in Flutter since 2017, but for some reason never saw this in any of the Flutter news. First commit was March 17th 2020, which is 13 days before the first Nigeria lockdown. As a mild tangent, this was 6 days before the first UK lockdown, 2 days before the first USA lockdown and 4 days after the Albania lockdown (the first lockdown in the world). https://github.com/WorldHealthOrganization/app It's also a monorepo, which seem quite popular in the Flutter community where Dart is used on the backend.

"The World Health Organization (WHO) plans to launch an app this month to enable people in under-resourced countries to assess whether they may have the novel coronavirus, and is considering a Bluetooth-based contact tracing feature too, an official told Reuters on Friday." "Engineers and designers, including some who previously worked at Alphabet Inc’s Google and Microsoft Corp, have been volunteering for weeks to develop the new app with about five of them overseeing the process. They are designing it open-source on the hosting service GitHub [0], meaning code is open to public input." [0] https://github.com/WorldHealthOrganization/app