England and Wales will now become the last places in the UK to have a coronavirus contact tracing app after Scotland launched its own version today. Nicola Sturgeon urged residents north of the border to download the new tech, called Protect Scotland, to avoid more local lockdowns. The app alerts users if they have been in … Read more
Catalogue of errors led to Britain’s £12million plans for contact-tracing app being shelved, insiders say Contact tracing app costing £12million ditched days ago after error ‘catalogue’ Testing showed it detected four per cent of iPhones it was in close contact with Decision to avoid ‘off-the-shelf’ platform means app had to be built from scratch By Stephen … Read more
The NHS coronavirus contact tracing app won’t work properly until October and will be ‘imperfect’ when it is first launched, it was claimed today. Officials first promised the app – considered the ‘cherry on the cake’ of Number 10’s flagship Test and Trace scheme – would be ready to roll-out across Britain in mid-May after … Read more
NHS coronavirus contact-tracing app could cause ‘digital divide’ as only half of manual workers, pensioners and unemployed say they will download it compared to three quarters of ‘professionals’ Independent charity the Health Foundation surveyed around 2,000 Britons They found that intended use of the tracing app varied across the population In addition, level of education … Read more
Apple and Google have today announced the launch of their coronavirus contact-tracing app software. The API — a software blueprint — will be used by a nation’s health authority to build their own apps and has so far been given to 22 countries who requested access to the technology. Apple and Google did not reveal … Read more
The NHS’ track-and-trace app considered vital to getting the UK out of coronavirus lockdown will be tested on the Isle of Wight from today onwards – but there are growing concerns about its privacy setting and its inability to work abroad. Health Secretary Matt Hancock has decided the first public tests would begin on the self-contained … Read more
The NHSX app will be launched for health workers on the Isle of Wight tomorrow The NHS contact-tracing app considered vital to getting the UK out of coronavirus lockdown will be available for medical staff on the Isle of Wight from tomorrow. Health Secretary Matt Hancock announced today that the first public tests would begin … Read more
Up to two billion smartphone users around the world won’t be able to use the coronavirus contact tracing app currently being developed by Apple and Google. Hundreds of millions of older smartphones still in active use don’t have the required software and Bluetooth to run the new app, which could be released next month. The … Read more
An NHS contact-tracing app would only completely stop the spread of coronavirus if 80 per cent of current smartphone owners use it, researchers have warned. The team from the University of Oxford simulated how COVID-19 might spread in order to support the development of contact-tracing apps across Europe. However, a previous survey of potential contact-tracing … Read more
An NHS contact-tracing app would only completely stop the spread of coronavirus if 80 per cent of current smartphone owners use it, researchers have warned. The team from the University of Oxford simulated how COVID-19 might spread in order to support the development of contact-tracing apps across Europe. However, a previous survey of potential contact-tracing … Read more