Announced during the coronavirus daily briefing on May 27, the NHS Test & Trace service is now up and running in England. "This new system will help us keep this virus under control while carefully ...

The UK National Health Service's (NHS) official COVID-19 contact-tracing app has been launched across England and Wales following months of delays. Available from today on the Apple App Store and ...

A recent Nature journal study analyzed over seven million data points from the National Health Service (NHS) coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) app to understand how app measurements can be ...

After missing its first scheduled launch in mid-May, followed by further delays due to a number of technology issues as other countries forged ahead, the NHS Covid-19 contact-tracing app is now set to ...

The NHS Covid-19 contact tracing app could soon show people’s coronavirus health “status” and ask individuals to share precise location data, internal NHS documents seen by WIRED reveal. One document ...

All of the politics, all of the delays, all of the technical and scientific debates about efficacy and purpose are over: the official NHS Covid-19 contact-tracing app is now available to all ...

On the Isle of Wight, the NHS contact tracing app is making a difference. Around 25 people per day are being tested for coronavirus after reporting it through their phones and more than 50,000 people ...

A team of experts at the Pandemic Sciences Institute at the University of Oxford and Department of Statistics at the University of Warwick estimate the NHS COVID-19 app prevented around 1 million ...

Future features include plenty of self-reporting options, and officials’ fears the data could be misused. A COVID-19 contact-tracing app to be rolled out by the UK’s National Health Service (NHS) has ...

The NHS Covid-19 app has been upgraded to detect close contacts more confidently, meaning that users can now expect more high-risk notifications to be issued. Due to the app's improved accuracy, users ...

Trials of the UK's NHS coronavirus contact-tracing app reveal that users must have iOS 11 or later, and battery life is profoundly impacted by the feature. Following the UK National Health Service's ...

NHS COVID-19, the contact tracing app created by the U.K. government, has alerted 1.7 million users to isolate following close contact with someone who goes on to test positive. That's according to an ...