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NHS Covid-19 app alerts 1.7 million contacts More than 1.7 million users asked to isolate by UK app as a result of a close contact since launch, helping to break chains of transmission and prevent the deaths of thousands, says developer Share this item with your network: By Published: 09 Feb 2021 18:30 After almost three months’ silence regarding the product’s development and the assistance that it has given the UK’s National Health Service (NHS), the developer of the UK’s Covid-19 contact-tracing app has revealed that approximately 600,000 cases have been prevented by the app si...
The NHS Covid-19 app will be needed for “quite a while” even with a vaccine, a developer behind the technology has said. More than 1.7 million people across England and Wales have been asked to isolate via the app since it launched in September, having been downloaded 21.6 million times in total. Scotland and Northern Ireland have their own apps. Research by The Alan Turing Institute and Oxford University – which is still subject to peer review – suggests that the app has so far prevented around 600,000 cases. Wolfgang Emmerich, chief executive for Zuhlke Engineering, one of the firms...