Contact-tracing app for England and Wales 'hampered by loss of public trust'

Contact-tracing app for England and Wales 'hampered by loss of public trust'

Alex Hern UK technology editor 21/09/2020

Summer of UK government scandals will reduce take-up of Covid-19 app, says expert

Dominic Cummings’ lockdown travels and the exams fiasco could have contributed to dooming the government’s Covid contact-tracing app before it even launches, a technology expert has warned.

Evidence of low uptake overseas also suggests the app may not live up to ministers’ early hopes of a panacea. In late May, the health secretary, Matt Hancock, admitted it was “the cherry on the cake but [not] the cake”; in recent weeks it has barely been mentioned.

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