Councils have near 100 per cent contact tracing record and should be handed responsibility for test and trace, claim officials
Councils have a near 100 per cent record at contact tracing, officials have revealed, amid calls for them to be...
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South Korea-style ‘backward tracing’ system to help pinpoint Covid ‘super spreader’ events
A Whitehall source confirmed that preparations to incorporate "backward", or retrospective, contact tracing into the current system were under way....
NHS Test and Trace registers worst week for contact tracing
This is an increase of 56 per cent in positive cases on the previous week and is the highest weekly...
Millions download NHS tracing app despite ‘teething problems’
More than 10 million people downloaded the NHS Covid-19 app in its first three days, the Government has said, despite a...
NHS coronavirus tracing app plagued with technical difficulties within hours of launching
As the software is voluntary, its success will also depend heavily on how many people choose to download and use...
NHS contact tracing app to launch on September 24 with QR code location tracking scheme
The NHS contact-tracing app will launch in England and Wales on September 24, Matt Hancock has announced, along with a...
Lack of access to contact tracing app could leave elderly more vulnerable to coronavirus
University College London (UCL) reviewed 15 studies on contact tracing and found that apps do little good without a very...
Bluetooth update to turn smartwatches and fitness trackers into coronavirus contact tracing devices
Wireless contact tracing could be extended to wearable devices such as smartwatches and fitness bands under an effort from the...
doubts linger as new Covid tracing app seeks to learn lessons
Officials estimate that it is 70pc accurate for “positive” matches – that two people definitely came within two metres of...
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 with a "false positive" rate...
Chris Whitty and Jeremy Hunt clash over UK’s abandonment of mass testing and tracing in March
When dealing with the question of why a test, trace and isolate system similar to South Korea was not modelled...
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 three metres apart. However, the...
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, amid concerns the Apple and...
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 device for up to 10...
“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 ‘two weeks’, as he blasted...
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 app use smartphones’ bluetooth connections...
NHS coronavirus contact tracing app ditched in major U-turn
As a result, the NHS app will be shelved, with a switch to a version based on the tech giants'...
Secret details on NHS contact tracing app left open to public in security blunder
Secret documents detailing the future plans for the Government’s coronavirus contact tracing app were left open to the public in...
NHSX contract tracing app scrapes a ‘pass’ in official review
Britain's contact tracing app has only just scraped a 'pass' in a review designed to test whether it could be used...
Isle of Wight contact tracing app ‘fails to work on four-year-old phones’, residents say
Some of those not able to run the software were attempting to do so on a Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge,...
Scotland will not recommend NHS coronavirus tracing app until ‘confident that it works’
The NHS contact tracing app will not yet be recommended for use in Scotland, with officials saying they first needed...
Government’s coronavirus tracing app failed key tests on cyber security and privacy
On Monday, the deputy chief medical officer, Jonathan Van Tam, said high take-up of the app was crucial to its...
Contact tracing app could halt spread of Covid-19 if downloaded by 60 per cent of the population
Every download of the NHS’s contact tracing app could stop one infection of the Coronavirus, a Oxford professor working on...
Contact tracing could halt the spread of virus, but Britons unlikely to accept surveillance
Nuffield’s Ada Lovelace Institute last week produced a damning summary of the exuberance around digital contact tracing. “Inaccurate, irresponsible or...
NHS contact tracing app will assess whether people have coronavirus without a test
He also said that while the initial alert system was completely anonymous, the NHS may later ask users to volunteer location...
UK pursues South Korean-style exit strategy with push on contact tracing
Britain will pursue a South Korean style exit strategy as the UK's testing star said 100,000 tests a day will...
