Pubs, restaurants and cafes have never been coronavirus hotspots, local public health directors claimed today. Despite hospitality venues facing hugely damaging restrictions, there has never been a ‘terribly big risk’ of someone catching the disease in them, they said. Greg Fell, director of public health in Sheffield, and Dr Richard Harling, his counterpart in Staffordshire, … Read more
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) had pledged to increase funding to states and territories to expand COVID-19 testing and vaccination efforts. On Wednesday evening, the agency announced it was committing $22 billion to jurisdictions by January 19. This includes funds for $19 billion testing, contact tracing and surveillance systems but just $3 … Read more
Charmed production halted AGAIN due to positive COVID-19 test as studio begins contact tracing procedures By Tracy Wright For Dailymail.com Published: 19:59 GMT, 4 November 2020 | Updated: 20:02 GMT, 4 November 2020 Production on the set of Charmed was stopped for the day on Wednesday after a positive COVID-19 test was revealed, according to … Read more
Mass testing and a better contact tracing regime could bring the UK’s coronavirus outbreak under control, SAGE has claimed in another dig at Number 10’s bungling test and trace system. Government scientific advisers endorsed Boris Johnson’s £100billion Operation Moonshot, which would see 10million people tested a day regardless of whether they have symptoms, in a … Read more
Apple, Google and the UK Department for Health have still not fixed a glitch in the NHS Covid-19 app, which has resulted in thousands of users receiving phantom ‘exposure notifications’. The alerts have been popping up on both iOS and Android devices since last week, with the title: ‘Possible COVID-19 exposure’, ‘COVID-19 EXPOSURE LOGGING’ or ‘COVID-19 … Read more
Police officers are ordered not to use their work phone to download coronavirus tracing app NPCC urges police to install app only on own person phones, not work ones Some constabularies allow officers to have ‘third party apps’ on work phones App detects whether users have come into close contact with confirmed case By Sophie … Read more
Government’s coronavirus tracing app FINALLY launches nationwide TODAY… four months later than planned The app uses Bluetooth technology to alert users if they have come into contact with someone who has tested positive for the virus They will then receive a message telling them to self-isolate for 14 days and to book a test, although … Read more
The NHS contact tracing coronavirus app launches later this week amid a storm of doubt and uncertainty. It is based on a piece of software, an API, built by tech giants Apple and Google, who came together in an unprecedented alliance at the start of the pandemic. But the effectiveness of the app has been … Read more
The beleaguered NHS Covid-19 contact tracing app will finally launch in England and Wales on September 24, the Department of Health has confirmed. Officials have repeatedly delayed the rollout of the smartphone software since it was first expected in May but trials on the Isle of Wight failed. The app will add to the NHS Test … Read more
The new NHS Test and Trace app won’t work unless the vast majority of the country installs it and even then social distancing will still be required, a new study claims. The NHS app launched in the Isle of Wight last week as a pilot scheme, with users urged to scan barcodes when they go … Read more