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 ...

England and Wales launch a COVID-19 smartphone app on Thursday, allowing users to trace contacts, check the local level of risk and record visits to venues such as pubs, four months after the ...

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 ...

Users of the NHS COVID-19 app in England and Wales are no longer able to use the app, due to the shutdown of the service on Thursday. Like many other countries around the world, the UK's National ...

It's been over four months since the NHS COVID-19 contact-tracing app launched across the UK, and since then the health services have been short of updates on the performance of the technology, to say ...

The NHS COVID-19 'Track and Trace' app will now operate in a different way, after the general public and experts alike complained of a 'pingdemic' (which at one point saw 618,903 people receive a ...

The UK's NHS website notes that Covid symptoms are "very similar to symptoms of other illnesses, such as colds and flu". Both ...

Branch staff at some of Britain's biggest banks say rules that require them to store phones in lockers while at work are putting them at undue risk of COVID-19 from colleagues and customers, as they ...

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 ...

An update to the NHS COVID-19 contact tracing app has been blocked by Big Tech. Credit: Phil Barker / Future Publishing via Getty Images Google and Apple have blocked an update to the UK government's ...