Ministers to update NHS Covid app to ‘reduce disruption’
The Guardian says ministers are to radically alter the NHS Covid-19 app in order to reduce the number of people instructed to isolate after they have been in contact with someone who tests positive, in the latest move to combat the numbers of people in quarantine.
From Monday, the app will instruct contacts to isolate only if they have been close to someone in the two days leading up to a positive test, rather than the current five-day threshold.
The change is a significant shift of No 10 policy, which had said there were no plans to change the way the app operated or tweak its sensitivity to address the “pingdemic”.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/aug/02/ministers-to-update-nhs-covid-app-to-reduce-disruption
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