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It’s new patients only, but for each day they might have been infectious. So, if it’s 100k new cases a day, and each uploads 5 days of keys, then it’s 8 MB.

Seems doable, especially considering that you’d want to have fully blown lockdown during the exponential growth, and only then switch over to this contact tracing phase once the initial wave has abated.




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