COVID-19: Hundreds of thousands with coronavirus not using NHS app to 'ping' close contacts

Hundreds of thousands of people who have tested positive for COVID-19 are not using the NHS contact tracing apps to alert their close contacts, despite the outbreak of the Omicron variant, new figures reveal.

In Scotland less than 20% of people who have downloaded the contact tracing app are using it to inform people that they have tested positive. The Scottish government recently announced that contacts of infected people must isolate until they can take a PCR test, and the app is a key way of alerting them.

In England and Wales it's estimated only half of people who have the app are using it to alert their contacts of a positive result.The NHS contact tracing apps are a vital plank in the government's response to the pandemic.When someone tests positive via a PCR test, they can opt to use the app to send a"ping" to other app users who have spent a substantial time within a few metres of them in the preceding days.

The numbers reached a peak during the so-called"pingdemic" of late July, when more than 600,000 were sent out in a single week, but have since fallen to a third of that total.

Yes, because people are coming to terms with the fact that this virus is very, very unlikely to cause major complications/death in the vast majority of people.

Hmmm I wonder why. I’ve not yet met anyone who didn’t delete it

Great news

Good

Deleted my app on freedom day.

Good.

Get Real

Never installed it and never will,same with there other shite aswell

What app?

Well theres a shock 🙄

It is a humanity control…

And why would they? We had covid. Track and trace asked me where I had been and I told them where we had been. They took zero contact details. No hotel names, restaurants, dates.... It's lip service. It's all bullshit.

All the anti vax and protesters, guaranteed 👌 people with a brain cell and understanding of science are still using it. Just got to love Darwinism, at its finest during a pandemic 🙄

My phone never leaves my home anymore.

downing st xmas parties during lockdown has consequences when no one else wants to follow the rules either, this is why shit like that is so damaging and ruinous

Well done ....👏👏🙏

already got enough shit spying on me

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