A recent Nature journal study analyzed over seven million data points from the National Health Service (NHS) coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) app to understand how app measurements can be ...

More than 600,000 people using the NHS Covid-19 app in England and Wales were sent self-isolation alerts in the week between 8 and 15 July. Data shows 618,903 alerts were sent - a 17% rise from the ...

The app detects the distance between users and the length of time spent in close proximity - currently 2m or less and more than 15 minutes. Transport Secretary Grant Shapps has said the “sensitivity” ...

Self-isolation rules are changing in some parts of the UK for fully vaccinated adults and children under 18. If they are identified as a close contact of someone who's tested positive for Covid, they ...

Boris Johnson’s test-and-trace service has seen another fall in its contact-tracing rate as the number of people testing positive soared across England. The figures for the week of September 17 to ...

Matt Hancock is self-isolating after coming into close contact with someone who has tested positive for coronavirus. The health secretary announced on Twitter that he was alerted by the NHS COVID-19 ...

Downing Street has insisted it is "crucial" to self-isolate when sent an alert by the Covid app - and businesses should help employees to do so. It comes after business minister Paul Scully said he ...

Neighbours are getting isolation warnings because the NHS Test and Trace app has 'pinged' through their walls, it's being reported. More than half a million people have been forced into isolation in a ...