NHS Covid tracing app shut down after 'saving 9,600 lives and preventing a million cases'

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NHS Covid tracing app shut down after 'saving 9,600 lives and preventing a million cases'
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Millions of users of the app, blamed for causing the 'pingdemic' of 2021, were notified that it will close down on 27 April

Professor Steven Riley, director general of data, analytics and surveillance at UK Health Security Agency, said: “The NHS Covid-19 app was a vital tool during the pandemic, estimated to have prevented around one million cases, 44,000 hospitalisations and 9,600 people dying during its first year alone.

The UK government moved to a new phase of “living with covid” in February 2022 and lifted all restrictions. Scientists at the University of Oxford and the University of Warwick have estimated that the app prevented around one million cases, 44,000 hospitalisations and 9,600 people dying during its first year alone.

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