Close contact with a Covid-19 sufferer brings 20 per cent chance of catching virus, study finds
Coming into close contact with a Covid-19 sufferer yields a 20 per cent chance of
contact
New NHS contact tracing app has ‘false positive’ rate of almost 50 per cent
The NHS contact tracing app being developed is right only half the time so far
Councils may not have enough contact tracers to knock on doors, health chief warns
But the president of the Association of Directors of Public Health warned that more resources were
Callers in ‘fundamentally wrong’ test and trace system reaching just one contact a month
The criticism chimes with comments from staff employed by NHS Test and Trace which have
Frustration at test and trace sees councils go it alone to contact potential coronavirus sufferers
The Department of Health and Social Care said it was working closely with local authorities
Five key questions about Google and Apple’s contact tracing system
NHS tests found the Apple-Google system could not tell if another phone was one or
NHS contact tracing app could be diminished to just a ‘companion’ to manual tracking
The NHS’s contact tracing app could be diminished to just a “companion” to manual tracking,
How do contact tracing apps work, and when will the UK ‘track and trace’ app be ready?
The system records contact as when a smartphone is within a couple of feet of another
“This contact tracing app situation in the UK is the height of incompetence.”
Mr Wales has claimed he can launch a German-style contact-tracing app in the UK within
why the NHS’s bespoke contact tracing system had to be switched
How the two systems work Both Apple and Google’s contact tracing system and the NHS’s