England's coronavirus contact tracing app trial gets under way
It will be limited to residents in the Isle of Wight, the London Borough of Newham andThe app will be available in Apple and Google's online stores, but users will need to enter a code to activate it.
Baroness Dido Harding - who heads up the wider Test and Trace initiative - had earlier voiced concern about implementing the automated contact-tracing feature because of fears many people who had been falsely flagged might be told to go into quarantine.An alert system that informs users of the coronavirus risk level close to their home, with the area defined by the first part of their postcode
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