‘I might delete it’: users on the NHS Covid-19 app amid the ‘pingdemic’

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‘I might delete it’: users on the NHS Covid-19 app amid the ‘pingdemic’
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A record 689,313 people in England and Wales were contacted by the NHS Covid-19 app and asked to self-isolate in the week to 12 July.A record 689,313 people in England and Wales were contacted by the NHS Covid-19 app and asked to self-isolate in the week to 12 July.T, after former health secretary Jeremy Hunt warned last week that the government “risks losing social consent” for its test-and-trace programme if it does not allow fully vaccinated people to avoid isolation.

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