UK app to track coronavirus spread to be launched
by Rowena Mason Deputy political editor from Technology | The Guardian on (#522QF)
Health secretary Matt Hancock rebuts concerns about privacy
The UK public will soon be able to find out if they may have been in the vicinity of people unwell with coronavirus via a new contact-tracing app, Matt Hancock, the health secretary, has said.
At No 10's daily press conference on Sunday, Hancock said the NHS app would allow people to report their symptoms, and then the app would anonymously alert other app users that had been in contact with that person in recent days.
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