Coronavirus: Health minister says app should roll out by winter

[AtW]

“ A government minister has said the NHS coronavirus contact-tracing app is "not a priority" and he was not sure it would be out by winter.

The app, which has been trialled on the Isle of Wight, was initially expected to launch nationally weeks ago.

Lord Bethell, the Minister for Innovation at the Department of Health and Social Care, said he was unable to give a date for its launch.

But he insisted that the trial "has gone very well indeed".”

Coronavirus: Health minister says app should roll out by winter - BBC News

Fking muppets

[Old Greg]

“ A government minister has said the NHS coronavirus contact-tracing app is "not a priority" and he was not sure it would be out by winter.

The app, which has been trialled on the Isle of Wight, was initially expected to launch nationally weeks ago.

Lord Bethell, the Minister for Innovation at the Department of Health and Social Care, said he was unable to give a date for its launch.

But he insisted that the trial "has gone very well indeed".”

Coronavirus: Health minister says app should roll out by winter - BBC News

Fking muppets

The British government has royally screwed up contact tracing. Layer that on top of going into lockdown too late and it's a very sorry business indeed.

Still, incompetence is what people voted for.

[AtW]

One phone call to GCHQ is all they needed.

[scooterscot]

Perhaps they can use the German app made available to us recently...


Bundesregierung | Corona-Warn-App: Unterstutzt uns im Kampf gegen Corona. Alle Informationen zur App.

[darmstadt]

Perhaps they can use the German app made available to us recently...


Bundesregierung | Corona-Warn-App: Unterstutzt uns im Kampf gegen Corona. Alle Informationen zur App.

And it's available in English too...Although they would have to change the availability of it as you can only download from the Google or Apple German stores

[AtW]

You guys are really stoooopid - The Minister said app was not a priority.

2nd class Royal Mail and telegrams are a go

[ladymuck]

Never saw this coming

UK poised to abandon coronavirus app in favour of Apple and Google model | Coronavirus outbreak | The Guardian

[DimPrawn]

[Old Greg]

Never saw this coming

UK poised to abandon coronavirus app in favour of Apple and Google model | Coronavirus outbreak | The Guardian

Is abandoning an app that Matt Hancock said was "a very, very positive step in terms of us all being able to get some of our liberty back" a very, very negative step in terms of you all being able to get some of our liberty back? Or is the UK just going to have a go anyway - Dunkirk spirit etc?

[AtW]

The first app worked really well and was awesome value for money - it got ministers through the (first) peak of pandemic, money well spent.