Coronavirus: England’s contact-tracing app gets green light for trial

By 2020-08-12Science & Tech
Image caption The Isle of Wight has been picked as a test bed for England’s contact-tracing app for a second time

England’s revamped coronavirus contact-tracing app is set to begin public trials on Thursday.

The software will be based on Apple and Google’s privacy-centric method of one smartphone detecting another.

Engineers are still trying to reduce how often the Bluetooth-based tech wrongly flags people as being within 2m (6.6ft) of each other.

Officials are concerned about people going into quarantine as a consequence.

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