The government's contact-tracing app delay is another IT disaster | John Rentoul

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The health secretary is supposed to be the kind of modern, digital-savvy Conservative who would bring the health service into the smartphone age

, the health secretary, assured us that our world-beating test, track and trace system would be ready to go on 1 June.

 

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Use Australia’s COVIDSafe - it’s simple, largely privacy-protective, quite secure and well accepted. GregHuntMP

Google/Apple app platform just launched worldwide... can’t we follow Germany (and others) and use this one please?

Who could have seen that coming? Oh wait... Everyone could see that coming!

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