It will be limited to residents in the Isle of Wight, the London Borough of Newham andThe app will be available in Apple and Google's online stores, but users will need to enter a code to activate it.
Baroness Dido Harding - who heads up the wider Test and Trace initiative - had earlier voiced concern about implementing the automated contact-tracing feature because of fears many people who had been falsely flagged might be told to go into quarantine.An alert system that informs users of the coronavirus risk level close to their home, with the area defined by the first part of their postcode
Such a waste:
I'm already ready to give it a one-star review so it can be removed from the app store.
Your phone running your life is now complete.
No published Covid-19 data today.. I wonder why
What a joke this contact tracing is when most of the establishments don't bother to ask for details 😤
Do hope that this app has a universal setup. There are hundreds of thousands of people living in the UK that do not have a UK Apple ID, but have an Apple ID from a different Country. Do hope they haven’t excluded people from access by being U.K. centric only.
By the time this app is ready for everyone else, Covid might be gone.
Only works with dial up
FFS! This government so pathetic & slow! They’re 5 months late to bring out the Contact Trace & Track app!
Wasnt this supposed to be up and running months ago?
Is this like the one in Australia? Big deal launch and vanished without trace immediately after.
BBCLondonNews Pointless for OAP's or people who DON'T have/want phones with all apps etc and just have a basic mobile phone, so then what ? how would it work for people with Basic phone ?
night PFFT ! Bit late, if they'd have offered a cash prize a bunch of nerdy 15 year olds would have sorted this months ago.
Should of left it to Google and apple BorisJohnson MattHancock in the first place the first app failed on jersey what confidence do u have this one will work? More money down the drain I take it.
Has law and order broken down in the UK - Nigel Farage investigates -
Scrap the crap app and sack Cummings at the same time.
This the app that won't operate on huawei because of privacy issues with the Chinese.
Casedemic The title says it all - absolutely crucial that you see this, realize the reality - and share widely. You must understand that our epidemic has waned - and has been replaced with an irrational, unscientific Casedemic
What about those of us without a mobile telephone?
Time to ditch your smart phone.
night Its not an NHS app...start getting that right
night ... again!
Did we just travel back in time?
Won't work just like the fucking GPs
Feck off. I don't consent. Go look up the Magna Carta. Its forever and cannot be removed. Why they don't tell you about it
Who owns the company it was developed by?
Can't use the app if you don't download. But no need, cos the outbreak has fizzled out according to Hart Mancock.
Again
This is not sinister at all, no, no. Nothing to see here. LMAO, country's slowly turning into East Germany.
Third times a charm
Simple solution: Time to ditch mobile phones.
REFUSE REFUSE REFUSE
Why? What's the point? What's the real reason for it being produced?
Didn't it launch and fail already
Is it early April already ?
Another one?
Why are they still persisting with this nonsense?
There is a Unite for Freedom protest in Trafalgar Square, London, on 29 august 2020.
Buy cheap, buy twice.
It's been 6 months. Should have quarantined the old people and carried on as usual, would have had herd immunity by now.
*narrator* after over a year of development, the ‘world-beating’ app was never widely adopted
Jeez!! So much moaning and whining. So many experts with hindsight. Unity at time of crisis has been replaced with me me me mentality.
Is there a virus at play in our society which is even more dangerous than SARS-CoV-2? virus coronavirus COVID19
Did Cummings and his cronies have a hand in developing this one. Still not 100% sure I want anything with his grubby fingerprints on having access to my personal data.
If you have to self isolate you should be paid at the moment no one is going to self isolate if they’re not getting paid
There will be a vaccine by the time they get this working. Absolutely incompetent. Country is run like a giant sports direct
Not even going to pick up my barge pole with this.
Awaiting next headline 'Englands Coronavirus contact tracing app SHAMBLES'.
Then this.
Five months after the App in China was fully up and running.
Omg now after people passed away and get affected, this app wich should be months ago arriving first in England, this is just unbelievable!!
Would that be the “World Beating” we were promised would be working in, checks notes, June? Perhaps you could reword things a bit.
How much did this cost us compared to the failed earlier version? Which Tory MP/doner profits from it? Will the appropriate data protection checks be done? Is the app expected to be fully tested and live before schools go back? Will it work or is it 'world-beating'?
It take time for GCHQ to get it's app out.
What happened to the last one? Another failure by English Govt? BBCPolitics bbcworldservice itvnews
World beating no doubt!
For a virus which is less fatal than common flu and has a average mortality age 3 years older than average life expectancy? I'll pass.
But Bojo the clown said we had a world beating test track and trace system before lockdown. Which has already cost the taxpayer millions. How many of their donors do you need to make richer before you realise you're being mugged off?
If people cant be bothered to wear masks or be careful they wont use the app. We need compulsory masks in public for four more months, or until we have 0 cases.
Which version are we on now?
Who is on the cronyism gravy train for this particular one then?
Great! Only about 6 months too late
I have a feeling of Deja Vu....
Let's hope it does better than the Isle of Wight one which mysteriously went missing! CoronaFarce
*underway
Ooh is this the world beating app, that doesn’t work or is this another great government , er what’s the word. Disaster. 👀
Again.
Will this be like the England football team? Promising to be World Cup winners but failing to achieve again and again!
I’d rather put my faith in bowl of wheatabix
Has the app been checked to be virus free?
Results -----'Unavailable '
About time.
Bit late now isn't it?
Who's quids in this time?
is this the world beating app that cost millions ?
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