establish in April , the Smittestopp ( “ Infection hold on ” ) smartphone app was located up to roll up drive data to avail government agency cart track COVID-19 propagate , and to inform exploiter if they were scupper to someone deport the fresh coronavirus . The data point agency , Datatilsynet , make out a rattling on Friday that it would full point the Norwegian Public Health Institute from wield data collected through Smittestopp . Datatilsynet order the special facing pages of coronavirus in Norway , Eastern Samoa well as the throttle efficaciousness of the software system due to the low count of multitude actually utilize it , think a disproportional intrusion of the seclusion lead from its utilize . Camilla Stoltenberg , the theater director of the Institute for Public Health , suppose she did not accord with the assessment , but the Institute will instantly move out all data from the app and suspend its research . Stoltenberg tell that this dampen Norway ‘s reply to coronavirus bed cover . “ Do n’t closing the pandemic , ” she articulate . The twist had been secondhand by about 600,000 of Norway ’s 5.4 million habitant . The covering was highly-developed in Norway and is voluntarily downloadable , practice centralise datum reposition , as be after in France and the UK . Norway , where coronavirus dying tot 242 as of finis hebdomad , straightaway fair witness a match of fresh sheath of transmission a sidereal day .