Contact tracing reduces the speed of the coronavirus’s spread by a maximum of five per cent and as little as two per cent, NHS Test and Trace boss Dido Harding has revealed. Baroness Harding said in a report to Parliament’s science committee that the act of tracking down people who have been close to Covid-19 … Read more
Pubs, restaurants and cafes have never been coronavirus hotspots, local public health directors claimed today. Despite hospitality venues facing hugely damaging restrictions, there has never been a ‘terribly big risk’ of someone catching the disease in them, they said. Greg Fell, director of public health in Sheffield, and Dr Richard Harling, his counterpart in Staffordshire, … Read more
Charmed production halted AGAIN due to positive COVID-19 test as studio begins contact tracing procedures By Tracy Wright For Dailymail.com Published: 19:59 GMT, 4 November 2020 | Updated: 19:59 GMT, 4 November 2020 Production on the set of Charmed was stopped for the day on Wednesday after a positive COVID-19 test was revealed, according to … Read more
Police officers are ordered not to use their work phone to download coronavirus tracing app NPCC urges police to install app only on own person phones, not work ones Some constabularies allow officers to have ‘third party apps’ on work phones App detects whether users have come into close contact with confirmed case By Sophie … Read more
Long-awaited NHS coronavirus contact-tracing app will launch in England and Wales in two WEEKS on September 24, Department of Health confirms By Sam Blanchard Senior Health Reporter For Mailonline Published: 11:17 BST, 11 September 2020 | Updated: 11:20 BST, 11 September 2020 The beleaguered NHS Covid-19 contact tracing app will finally launch in England and Wales … 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
Coronavirus tracing app will be launched yet again… and users will be asked to scan in at barcode points in pubs and restaurants Users of app will be asked to scan in at barcode points in pubs and restaurants Pilot schemes will begin on Isle of Wight – where first app was tested and failed … Read more
Councils in England will support the lagging NHS Test and Trace system by sending tracers to chap on doors of people who refuse to answer the phone to, or reply to emails from, the national team.
Ministers today admitted the struggling coronavirus contact tracing system must improve amid fears that reopening schools in September could spark 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 the Spring. … 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