Cheap, popular and it works: Ireland's contact-tracing app success
by Rory Carroll, Ireland correspondent from Technology | The Guardian on (#55XGM)
Irish-made app has more than 1.3m downloads, in stark contrast to the UK's efforts
A government minister once compared Ireland's health care system to Angola - a political minefield of dysfunction, bureaucracy, waste and inefficiency. The nickname stuck.
Yet this morass has just produced a shiny success: a Covid-19 contact-tracing app that is popular and appears to work.
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