Coronavirus: Millions yet to receive UK government’s Covid-19 text

By 2020-03-25Science & Tech
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Millions of mobile users in the UK have yet to receive the government’s text message alert about coronavirus.

The SMS – telling people to stay at home – began being sent early on Tuesday morning.

But Vodafone has confirmed it only expects to complete the process later this Wednesday.

One expert said that it highlights the shortcoming of not having a system that can flash a message to people’s phones simultaneously.

Vodafone is the only one of the UK’s big four networks that has not finished the task.

Three told the BBC it had delivered the text to a total of 10.7 million phone numbers by early afternoon on Tuesday.

EE said it had also completed the process yesterday ... Read even more

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