Scientists at Trinity College in Dublin who advised the Irish app development team have produced a number of studies showing Bluetooth can be a very unreliable way to log contacts.
When I questioned whether Bluetooth could really do the job, an official told me that apps were public health tools, not scientific measuring instruments. He added that their accuracy should be measured against humans, who would be pretty poor at remembering how close they were to someone and for how long.
Incidentally, if public trust is vital to the app's rollout, the people of the Isle of Wight may have something to say about that.
World beating
Not a chance! WarOnYourRights
England's is world beating. Isn't the app inside every one of us? We don't need to 'see' it. We just need to believe in it. It's a bit like Brexit benefits.
BBCPolitics
Since when is it England’s app? I thought the NHSX app was being developed by the UK government, for the whole of the UK? Are Scot, Wales, NI making their own apps or going without? Or is this just a classic case of England = UK
🙄 no words....
Name one country with a working track and trace app.....
Oh the Brussels Broadcasting Corporation taking another jibe at England and our government ! DEFUND THE BBC !
We don’t need an app so don’t bother
Not surprised
Can the bbc not move to Ireland and tax them £150per year? See what response theyd get.
Wish you would take the British out of BBC. You obviously despise this country so why have it in your name? How about a few positive stories like Oxford ahead in the vaccine race or the or the NHS not being overrun. God the bbc must hate this country.
UK. Coronavirus (COVID-19) in the UK. Daily number of COVID-19 associated UK deaths. 155 Number of additional deaths on Tuesday 7 July 2020. Total number of COVID-19 associated UK deaths. 44,391 coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) COVID19 UK
Can't have an app on my £30 phone, recently bought for the purpose of not being able to download an app.
How many people will actually use it though - not many. Is a waste of time in the UK when you have had thousands attending BLM protests over 3 weeks. Can you see all these morons using it when they attend their next illegal rave party! Not likely!
By the time the English one is ever ready the virus will have packed up and left... workd beating hey boris...
In other German news deodorant banned on public transport to encourage more mask use, 😂😂😂
But it doesn’t work. Yes we know you hate England and nations BBC. Thanks
I’ll wear a mask and wash my hands instead thanks 👍
Not wanting old bill knowing where I am. Cheers
Unless every single person has one, it is pointless.
As long as it’s ready for the second wave.
Denmark 🇩🇰 has one too
Love the graphics.
BBCPolitics Why cant I find the Irish version? Plus...'Germany has celebrated the fact that in three weeks its app has been downloaded by 15 million people out of a population of 83 million' With that percentage of the population using it... it is useless!
But does it work?
What our world beating app still isn’t ready!!! 😂
Good old bargain basement England bringing up the rear !
Those apps may be 'live' but they don't work! As stated in the article: 'Now it is true that there is very little evidence that Bluetooth-based apps have so far been successful in tracking down people who came close to someone diagnosed with the virus.'
ThE BBC always ready to have a dig at England
Baha covid, mass population control🤢
Another Anti-UK story...
Makes me chuckle that governments are so blind to the wider environment. Why make your own app when Google, Microsoft and Apple have been tracking the movement of people without expressed consent for years?
If 'England's A Team' really believe in herd immunity, that could explain why they can't really be a*sed with preventative measures.letsjustwingit
I never quite understood why each country is making its own contact-tracing app. E.g. why not use SwissCovid which was piloted using Google and Apple APIs from 28 May (and has been available since 25 June (
NO THANK YUO 'BIG BROTHER'!!
What’s the point of an app if 78% of cases are asymptomatic and therefore will never be detected. Pissing in the wind.
Schling it satanists!!!! We dont want your mark!!!!
Yes but when ours comes out it will be WORLD BEATING!
Thick c*** leave voters, desperate to protect their incompetent, brexit lie, delivering government...incoming!
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