UK coronavirus app could be 'ditched for different model' after trials
by Rowena Mason Deputy political editor from Science | The Guardian on (#5399W)
UK will either adapt' contact-tracing app or change to decentralised model favoured by other countries
The UK could either adapt" its coronavirus contact-tracing app or ditch it and move to a different model", after piloting it in the Isle of Wight and learning lessons from other countries.
About 40,000 people in the Isle of Wight have been trialling the app, designed by an arm of the NHS, which alerts users if they have been near to a suspected case of coronavirus.
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