WHO started a Flutter Covid-19 app 13 days before lockdown

12 points by tobinharris 3 years ago | 3 comments

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.

lern_too_spel 3 years ago |

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...

trcarney 3 years ago |

At least in the US, the pandemic seemed to be taken seriously on March 11, 2020, when the NBA shut down. The news had been talks about what was coming and some companies had already sent their people home but the NBA thing was the domino that started it all. So creating an app on the 17th is pretty in line with the timeline of events, if anything maybe a little late.

Spooky23 3 years ago |

I sent my people home on the 12th.