Privacy, children and digital exclusion: Contact-tracing app issues answered
A contact-tracing app could be key to helping ease lockdown but there have been a number of concerns raised.
A contact-tracing app could be key to helping ease lockdown but there have been a number of concerns raised.
It is part of the Government’s test, track and trace efforts.
It is part of the Government’s test, track and trace efforts.
Dr Jenny Harries said getting the app ‘up and running at scale and effectively’ is ‘another significant task’.
Dr Jenny Harries said getting the app ‘up and running at scale and effectively’ is ‘another significant task’.
Areas with higher rates of poverty will need a greater supply of PPE, one scientist warns.
Areas with higher rates of poverty will need a greater supply of PPE, one scientist warns.
The app is expected to be ready for widespread use in three weeks to help ease current lockdown measures and identify and contain the virus’s spread.
The app is expected to be ready for widespread use in three weeks to help ease current lockdown measures and identify and contain the virus’s spread.
The app would alert users if they had come into contact with someone who had tested positive for Covid-19.
The app would alert users if they had come into contact with someone who had tested positive for Covid-19.
Tech savvy pensioners from Walsall have developed a handy free mobile app giving people vital advice during the Covid-19 crisis.
More than 700 million people already play a game, watch a gaming video, or hang out in a gaming group on the social network, Facebook said.
More than 700 million people already play a game, watch a gaming video, or hang out in a gaming group on the social network, Facebook said.
New research suggests if around 60% of the whole population used such technology, the pandemic could be stopped.