England’s beleaguered Covid-19 contact tracing app will finally launch on September 24, the Department of Health confirmed today after Nicola Sturgeon beat Boris Johnson to the punch once again by setting Scotland’s app live yesterday. Officials in Westminster originally promised the app, hailed by ministers as a ‘game changer’, would be ready by May, but its rollout … Read more
The beleaguered NHS Covid-19 contact tracing app will finally launch in England and Wales on September 24, the Department of Health has confirmed. Officials have repeatedly delayed the rollout of the smartphone software since it was first expected in May but trials on the Isle of Wight failed. The app will add to the NHS Test … Read more
The much-delayed NHS Test and Trace smartphone app is being re-launched today with a second round of trials on the Isle of Wight and in the London borough of Newham. England’s beleaguered app, of which the first version had to be scrapped in June after a string of failures, has now been recreated using technology made … Read more
The NHS Test and Trace smartphone app is being re-launched today with a second round of trials on the Isle of Wight and in the London borough of Newham. England’s beleaguered app, of which the first version had to be scrapped in June, has now been recreated using technology made by Google and Apple. Officials … Read more
Ministers today admitted the struggling coronavirus contact tracing system must improve – but insisted schools will reopen in September despite fears of a catastrophic second peak. Local government minister Simon Clarke conceded there is ‘more to do’ after a major study warned a resurgence of the disease could be twice as bad as that in … Read more
Ministers today admitted the struggling coronavirus contact tracing system must improve – but insisted schools will reopen in September despite fears of a catastrophic second peak. Local government minister Simon Clarke conceded there is ‘more to do’ after a major study warned a resurgence of the disease could be twice as bad as that in … Read more
NHS tracing app will tell users when someone tests positive at their local pub or restaurant New app to have a barcode system where users scan phones in shops and pubs NHS test and trace chair Baroness Harding says app will be available by winter She said it would be very similar to New Zealand’s … Read more
Contact tracers need to catch 80 per cent of infections and test suspected patients within three days to keep coronavirus epidemics squashed, a study has found. Researchers from the University of Utrecht in the Netherlands said the reproduction R rate can be kept under one as long as only two in 10 patients slip under … Read more
Coronavirus contact tracing staff are caught sharing patients’ confidential data on Facebook and Whatsapp Names, NHS numbers, contact details and case IDs of positive cases shared Staff sent the screenshots for each other when asking for help with system Department of Health said there was a system for tracers needing help By Luke Andrews For … Read more
Coronavirus contact tracing staff are caught sharing patients’ confidential data on Facebook and Whatsapp Names, NHS numbers, contact details and case IDs of positive cases shared Staff sent the screenshots for each other when asking for help with system Department of Health said there was a system for tracers needing help By Luke Andrews For … Read more